If you often work with JSON documents, you may have written classes to map JSON content to .NET types. Libraries like Json.NET or System.Text.Json can then serialize and deserialize those classes to and from JSON.
Writing these mapping classes by hand is tedious and error-prone. Instead, Visual Studio can generate them automatically from a sample JSON string.
- Copy a JSON string to the clipboard
- Use Paste JSON as classes
Paste JSON as classes in Visual Studio
Let's try with the following JSON document:
JSON
{
"markers": [
{
"name": "Rixos The Palm Dubai",
"position": [25.1212, 55.1535],
},
{
"name": "Shangri-La Hotel",
"location": [25.2084, 55.2719]
},
{
"name": "Grand Hyatt",
"location": [25.2285, 55.3273]
}
]
}
Visual Studio generates the following code:
C#
public class Rootobject
{
public Marker[] markers { get; set; }
}
public class Marker
{
public string name { get; set; }
public float[] position { get; set; }
public float[] location { get; set; }
}
This feature is a real time-saver when working with JSON data.
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