`Dynamic` to a static class converter. Does it exist?

Question

I am using the dynamic type to read in a lot of JSON and process it. Frankly, I'd rather have intellisense. So I was wondering whether anyone has written a converter class that takes a dynamic object and generates a static class(es) out of it.

Answer 1

Check out the JSON C# Class Generator:

This application generates C# classes from a sample JSON text, so you can use strongly typed programming with JSON. It currently supports typed arrays, typed objects, integers, floats, booleans, strings and nullable types.

Answer 2

JavaScriptSerializer.ConvertToType is ideal for this. It maps matching properties to a static type, and ignores those that don't.

You do need to give it the static type, but I think converting a dynamic to a anon static is a code smell.