I want to be able to generate a DataContract
from a XSD file, preferably using the xsd.exe tool. What is the easiest way for it to auto generate the [DataContract]
and [DataMember]
on each of my items?
Or is there a better approach? I am trying to avoid having to recreate the data contract each time the XSD file is changed and regenerated.
The xsd.exe
tool predates WCF and doesn't know anything about [DataContract]
and [DataMember]
. If you do use xsd.exe
, you'll have to switch WCF to use the XmlSerializer
instead of its default DataContractSerializer
for serializing the data contracts.
The WCF equivalent for xsd.exe
is svcutil.exe
- it has a parameter /dconly
which creates the data contracts only, from a given XSD file. This will generate a C# or VB.NET file for you, containing the data contracts nicely annotated.
Usage:
svcutil.exe (name of your XSD).xsd /dconly
This would generate a *.cs file by the same base name in your directory.
In my experience, svcutil.exe
is quite picky about its XML structures - so don't be surprised if it barks at you with tons of warnings and/or errors.
Use svcutil.exe instead of xsd.exe
How to Use ? Go to Start Menu --> Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 --> Visual Studio Tools --> Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt
and Change the directoy you want or change the directory to whre your xsd is there.
svcutil.exe /help
it will list all the options.
one of the option I use to generate data contarct only is
svcutil.exe /target:code /n:*,[Your Company and Department].Common.DataTransferObjects /dataContractOnly /serializer:auto /importXmlTypes common.xsd /out:common.cs
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