- C# Serialize Class To Xml With Attributes
- Serialize A Class To Xml File
- C# Serialize Class To Xmlelement
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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. Nov 26, 2011 I want to serialize a List to a xml file, what should I do? I tried to add XmlElement(ElementName='.' ) before all of the properties of Person class and Address class, but after serializing, I got a xml file which all the properties I want to serialize as an element of the xml been serialized as attribute. 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).
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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C# Serialize Class To Xml With Attributes
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Serialize A Class To Xml File
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There is much simpler way of serializing objects, use
XmlSerializer
instead. See documentation here.![Serialize A Class To Xml Serialize A Class To Xml](/uploads/1/2/6/0/126044561/855210985.png)
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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![Serialize A Class To Xml Serialize A Class To Xml](/uploads/1/2/6/0/126044561/148111300.gif)
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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