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Paste JSON as Code with quicktype.io in Visual Studio

quicktype! Yes that quicktype that I blogged about late last year on how to convert JSON to C# classes in the browser. I am back talking about it again because they have made tons of great enhancements and just today released a new extension for Visual Studio 2017! I should mention here that all of this is FREE. Watch Now, Questions Later Want to see it in action? Checkout my short video overview:

James Montemagno

Convert Json to C# (and More) with quicktype

How often do you run into the situation where you are reading data from a json file or hitting a RESTful endpoint and pulling down a huge json file that you then need to deserialize? I bet pretty often as I know I do all the time. The next issue of course is that you have this bug json file, but you need to generate the actual data types, POCOs, inside of your C# code. This can be extremely tedious if you try to do …

James Montemagno

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