Silly question maybe, but I've been doing the following for far too
long now:

   public static DataTable myDataTable()
   {
       string sql = @"SELECT     column1, column2, column3, column4
FROM myTable";
       using (SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(websqlconn))
       {
           SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(sql, conn);
           cmd.CommandType = CommandType.Text;
           SqlDataAdapter da = new SqlDataAdapter();
           da.SelectCommand = cmd;
           DataTable dt = new DataTable();
           da.Fill(dt);
           return dt;
       }
   }

The above code would normally be using stored procedures, but for a
little bit of added clarity, I've included a simple query.

Now, the silly bit.

Without going through all the code bloat of Visual Studio IDE and
making the sql and getting the xsd, how would I go about translating
the above code into a strongly typed object?