Automatically generate C# from XSD in Visual Studio IDE

Question

I am running Visual Studio 2010. I have a XSD schema and want to use xsd.exe tool to generate appropriate C# file. I have done this successfully from a command

Answer 1

You can also add it as an external tool (click tools - external tools...) to visual studio (2015). Then just select the xsd schema in visual studio and click tools - xsd to generate the class file.

Parameters:

• Command: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v10.0A\bin\NETFX 4.7.1 Tools\xsd.exe (replace with your version of FX tools)
• Arguments: /c "$(ItemDir)$(ItemFileName)$(ItemExt)"
• Initial directory: $(ItemDir)
• Use Output window: yes

Answer 2

You can check out Xsd2Code for a VS addin that does this interactively. The author is also working on a VS2010 version, as far as I know.

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