Question

What would be the best way to deserialize this

Dictionary<string, object>{
   {"fName", "John"},
   {"lName", "Doe"},
   {"email", "[e-mail]"}
}

to this

class Member{
   string fName;
   string lName;
   string email;
}

Answer 1

This isn’t really serialization in the normal sense, that usually refers to taking some disk or network formatted data (binary, ASCII, JSON etc) and loading it into a runtime object.

However, if I understand you correctly, I think what you are trying to do is…

public Member( Dictionary<string,object> dictionary )
{ 
    fName = dictionary["fName"];
    lName = dictionary["lName"];
    email = dictionary["email"];
}

// usage Member m = new Member( inputDictionary );