XML Serialization in C#

Question

Hello, Where Can I find good tutorial about XMl serialization to the object? Thanks.

Answer 1

MSDN has a decent article about it: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733901.aspx

And this one's a bit more straightforward: http://www.dotnetjohn.com/articles.aspx?articleid=173

Answer 2

Here's a good start microsoft

Also look into Xml Schema and generating classes automatically with xsd.exe the sooner you get used to this the better, it can save you a lot of effort working with XML. Also looking at the generated c# files gives you some clues on how to use attributes to manipulate the way classes are serilized by the XmlSerializer

Answer 3

There's a basic tutorial on Microsoft's support pages and a slightly more lengthy one on Devhood.

SwitchOnTheCode has a fairly extensive one too.

Answer 4

XML Serialization in the .NET Framework

How to serialize an object to XML by using Visual C#

Answer 5

Its really pretty simple, there are only three main steps.

1. You need to mark your classes with the [Serializable] attribute.
2. Write Serialization code
3. Write Deserialization code

Serialization:

var x = new XmlSerializer(typeof(YourClass));
var fs = new FileStream(@"C:\YourFile.xml"), FileMode.OpenOrCreate);
x.Serialize(fs, yourInstance);
fs.Close();

Deserialization:

var x = new XmlSerializer(typeof(YourClass));
var fs = new FileStream(@"C:\YourFile.xml"), FileMode.Open);
var fromFile = x.Deserialize(fs) as YourClass;
fs.Close();

Answer 6

You can easily find many tutorials about serialization data using .Net on the Web. However, let me remind some points:

1. Types of serialization:

   a. XML Serialization : Please have a look at http://www.switchonthecode.com/tutorials/csharp-tutorial-xml-serialization

   b. Binary Serialization: Please refer to http://www.switchonthecode.com/tutorials/csharp-tutorial-serialize-objects-to-a-file

2. Also please be aware of the security aspects when you work (reading and writing data) with files. There is a good tutorial here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.security.permissions.fileiopermission.aspx

Answer 7

We use Serialization to write the data in Binary Format and IN XML format. for binary format we use BibnaryFormatSerialization and for XML format we use SoapFormatSerialization.