ASP.NET MVC Web API Paste XML as Types

Question

The old WCF Rest Starter Kit had a interesting feature. It was an additonal Visual Studio menu option under Edit called Paste XML as Types. You can see this in action here on Tim Heuer's blog post concerning the tool.

The WCF REST Starter kit is depreciated in favour of ASP.NET MVC Web API, but does the feature, or a similar feature still exist? Or alternatively, Paste JSON as Types?

It would be useful to have a tool in Visual Studio where you can paste a JSON or XML example and get a class generated.

Answer 1

There's a blog post about exactly this problem/feature here:

http://www.jphellemons.nl/post/Use-JSON-resource-in-AspNet-C-super-easy-and-fast.aspx

Mads Kristensen's web essentials package does what you need (among other things):

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/07d54d12-7133-4e15-becb-6f451ea3bea6