Question

I have tried (and failed) do do the following.

1. Create a sample XML file.

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<test1>
<test2>Test3</test2>
</test1>

2. Run it through Visual Studio 2010’s xsd to generate an XSD file.

   xsd test.xml

3. Add the XSD file to a C# project in Visual Studio 2010. This adds the files:

   • test.Designer.cs
   • test.xsc
   • test.xss

   and shows up in the designer view as indicated below.

   

4. Then I try to deserialize the file that started the whole thing:


var reader = new FileStream("xml/test.xml", FileMode.Open);
var serializer = new System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer(typeof(NewDataSet));
var test = serializer.Deserialize(reader);


and I get the error

The inner exception says {"<test1 xmlns=''> was not expected."}

What am I doing wrong? Or should I use xsd to generate the class also?

Answer 1

OK, that seems to be it:

xsd test.xsd /c

generates test.cs an using this as the type, rather than NewData deserializes correctly.