Question

I have an xml, I need to serialize.

<Configuration>   
    <Configs>
        <tester>
            <test>gabc</test>
            <test>def</test>
        </tester>
    </Configs>
</Configuration>

This is the class used.

public class Configuration
{
   public tester Configs{ get; set; }
}

public class tester 
{
   // The web site name
   public string[] test{ get; set; }
}

Configuration obj = new Configuration();
XmlSerializer mySerializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Configuration));
FileStream myFileStream = new FileStream(SettingsFile, FileMode.Open);
obj = (Configuration)mySerializer.Deserialize(myFileStream);
myFileStream.Close();

I am getting obj.configs.test as null.

How to get the values used in the test node?

Answer 1

You need to specify the XmlArray and XmlArrayItem

public class tester
{
   //The web site name
   [XmlArray("tester")]
   [XmlArrayItem("test")]
   public string[] test { get; set; }
}