Question

I Have this XML File

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<Root>
    <Object>
        <referenceName>People</referenceName>
        <query>select * from people</query>
    </Object>
    <Object>
        <referenceName>Countries</referenceName>
        <query>select * from countries</query>
    </Object>
</Root>

I need to convert into an object with C#.

I got confused how to do it.
Kindly note that I can have alot of objects in the xml file.

I know that i have to use an [XMLArray……

Thanks

Answer 1

The simplest trick here is at the VS command line:

xsd example.xml
xsd example.xsd /classes

Et voila; one example.cs file with example C# that shows how to get that xml from .NET objects via XmlSerializer.

In this case, I expect the following would work:

public class Root
{
    [XmlElement("Object")]
    public List<SomeOtherObject> Objects { get; set; }
}

public class SomeOtherObject
{
    [XmlElement("referenceName")]
    public string Name { get; set; }
    [XmlElement("query")]
    public string Query { get; set; }
}

update: validated it; yup, it works…

XmlSerializer ser = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Root));
using (XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(
    new StringReader(xml)))
{
    var obj = (Root)ser.Deserialize(reader);
    // use obj
}