Question

I’m trying to create a game save system which involves saving a score for each level when each level is complete and was thinking of using xml. I’m quite confused about how to do this. I’ve seen serialization like the particle system example on MSDN, but each particle system is split into seperate files. I want something like this:

parent

  level
    id 1 /id
  score 0 /score
  /level
  level
    id 2 /id
  score 0 /score
  /level

etc. And then all the data is loaded from one xml. What then confuses me as well is how I would serialize and unserialize it. Help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

You need to setup a single class that contains all the data, such as:

public class SavedGame
{
    public class Level
    {
        public int id;
        public int score;
    }

    [XmlElement()]
    public List<Level> level = new List<Level>();
}

Then you can serialize and deserialize it using the XmlSerializer class. I’m sure you can find many many examples of that if you searched the web.