Serialize A Class To Xml

Jul 11, 2017  XML Serialization. Serialization is the process of taking the state of an object and persisting it in some fashion. The Microsoft.NET Framework includes powerful objects that can serialize any object to XML. The System.Xml.Serialization namespace provides this capability. I have a C# class that I have inherited. I have successfully 'built' the object. But I need to serialize the object to XML. Is there an easy way to do it? It looks like the class has been set up for serialization, but I'm not sure how to get the XML representation. My class definition looks like this.

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Jul 20, 2015  The class being serialized must have a public constructor without parameters. Robust Programming. The following conditions may cause an exception: The class being serialized does not have a public, parameterless constructor. The file exists and is read-only (IOException). The path is too long (PathTooLongException). The disk is full (IOException). Now I want to convert this instance into a XML document in form of a string. After this I have to proof if both strings (of XML documents) are the same. This I have to do, because I make unit tests of the first method in which I read an XML document into a StringReader and serialize it into a.

I have got a class named WebserviceType I got from the tool xsd.exe from an XSD file.

Class

Now I want to deserialize an instance of an WebServiceType object to a string. How can I do this?

The MethodCheckType object has as params a WebServiceType array.

My first try was like I serialized it: with a XmlSerializer and a StringWriter (while serializing I used a StringReader).

This is the method in which I serialize the WebServiceType object:

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Maybe I could say it in different words: I have got an instance of this MethodCheckType object an on the other hand I have got the XML document from which I serialized this object. Now I want to convert this instance into a XML document in form of a string. After this I have to proof if both strings (of XML documents) are the same. This I have to do, because I make unit tests of the first method in which I read an XML document into a StringReader and serialize it into a MethodCheckType object.

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Here are conversion method for both ways.this = instance of your class

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I realize this is a very old post, but after looking at L.B's response I thought about how I could improve upon the accepted answer and make it generic for my own application. Here's what I came up with:

These methods can now be placed in a static helper class, which means no code duplication to every class that needs to be serialized.

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This is my solution, for any list object you can use this code for convert to xml layout. KeyFather is your principal tag and KeySon is where start your Forech.

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I have a main class called theGarage, which contains instances of our customer, supplier, and jobs classes.

I want to save the program data to an XML file, I have used the code below (just a snippet, I have matching code for the other classes). I am wondering if there is an easier way for me to do this, like write the whole theGarage class to an XML file and read it in without having to write all this code like I have below.

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There is much simpler way of serializing objects, use XmlSerializer instead. See documentation here.

Code snippet to serialize your garage to file could look like:

And code to load garage from file:

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What about a couple of nifty extension methods, then you can easily read/write this to/from file.

example

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I just wrote a blog post on saving an object's data to Binary, XML, or Json. Here is the functions to write and read the class instance to/from XML. See my blog post for more details.

Requires the System.Xml assembly to be included in your project.

Example

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For my project I use DataContractSerializer. I contrast to XmlSerializer it can handle multiple references to the same object in such a manner that data is not duplicated in xml and restored as saved.

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