Question

Working with C# Visual Studio 2008, MVC1.

I’m creating an xml file by fetching one from a WebService and adding some nodes to it. Now I wanted to deserialize it to a class which is the model used to strongtyped the View.

First of all, I’m facing problems to achieve that without storing the xml in the filesystem cause I don’t know how this serialize and deserialize work. I guess there’s a way and it’s a matter of time.

But, searching for the previous in the web I came accross LINQ to XML and now I doubt whether is better to use it.

The xml would be formed by some clients details, and basically I will use all of them.

Any hint?

Thanks!!

Answer 1

You can save a XElement to and from a MemoryStream (no need to save it to a file stream)

 MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
 XmlWriter xw = XmlWriter.Create(ms);
 document.Save(xw);
 xw.Flush();

Then if you reset the position back to 0 you can deserialize it using the DataContractSerializer.

 ms.Position = 0;
 DataContractSerializer serializer = new DataContractSerializer(typeof(Model));
 Model model = (model) serializer.ReadObject(ms);

There are other options for how serialization works, so if this is not what you have, let me know what you are using and I will help.