Creating Classes from XSD

Question

Hello everyone and thanks for the help in advance. I have been assigned a project tat ultimately creates XML files to be uploaded to a third party api. The data will be stored in a SQL server database before being transformed into the XML files. I was provided a few sample XML files along with several XSD files. I have no experience working with these types of files and how they interconnect with the creation of C# Visual Studio projects. I've read a little about creating C# classes from XSD files, but haven't been able to successfully do so. So I really need some insight and help as to how to proceed. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

.net support for xml & xsd is waning. most is around the xsd tool.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/serialization/xml-schema-def-tool-gen

and the serialization libraries.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/serialization/xml-and-soap-serialization.

you use the xsd tool to create classes the xml can serialize to and from. you add this classes to you project. I often make a separate project for these files. you than can use them as the target type for serialization.