Together, they are making it faster, easier, and cheaper to convert legacy XML and JSON data into modern formats that can be used for data insights critical to business success.

That’s one reason why with Office 2007, Microsoft shifted its Word and Excel file formats to XML-based format. Conversion to other formats was made much easier thanks to XML.

Functions are available to convert native data structures to and from XML, JSON, and YAML. These are typically used by an application and often a user will never see this data.

With a couple of mouse clicks you can convert JSON or XML to a perfectly good class. And, with a little extra work, you can do it in a couple of keystrokes.