Hi all.<\/p>\n
Today I read a topic related to XML, Serializing and Deserializing object, I enjoyed it because it provides an awesome way to convert objects (like classes) to XML. Before today, I used for loops and tags to build XML file, which needs alot of time and takes much of work when I need to modify the XML.<\/p>\n
In this post, I will make a simple example to introduce this issue, I’ll use C#, if you need any help in VB.NET please send to me.<\/p>\n
I will not talk about XML, I suppose you know whats the benefits and drawbacks of XML, but I will mention two important things when you need to serialize class to XML:<\/p>\n
The following example is about Person class with some public variables, one of the is an enumerator; Gender:<\/p>\n
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To create a serilizable class you must add Serializable<\/strong> attribute for the class, and use an empty constructor<\/strong>, below is the class for Person:<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0[<\/span><\/span><\/span>Serializable<\/span>] \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The output\u00a0XML is like this:<\/p>\n
\n<\/span>public<\/span> <\/span>class<\/span> <\/span>Person
\n<\/span>{
\n<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 public<\/span> <\/span>string<\/span> Name;
\n\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>public<\/span> <\/span>string<\/span> Address;
\n\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>public<\/span> <\/span>Gender<\/span> Gender;
\n\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>public<\/span> <\/span>DateTime<\/span> RegistrationDate;
\n\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>public<\/span> <\/span>double<\/span> Mark;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>{
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 }
\n}<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/span>Person<\/span> person = <\/span>new<\/span> <\/span>Person<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>();\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\/\/Create File using FileStream
\n<\/span>System.IO.<\/span>FileStream<\/span> fs = <\/span>new<\/span> System.IO.<\/span>FileStream<\/span>(Server.MapPath(<\/span>“~\/SerializedObject.XML”<\/span>),System.IO.<\/span>FileMode.Create);\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/span>person.Name = <\/span>“Ibrahim”<\/span>;
\nperson.Gender = <\/span>Gender<\/span>.Male;
\nperson.Address = <\/span>“Palestine”<\/span>;
\nperson.RegistrationDate = <\/span>new<\/span> <\/span>DateTime<\/span>(2009, 1, 1);
\nperson.Mark = 94.5;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/span>System.Xml.Serialization.<\/span>XmlSerializer<\/span> xs = <\/span>new<\/span> System.Xml.Serialization.<\/span>XmlSerializer<\/span>(<\/span>typeof<\/span>(<\/span>Person<\/span><\/span><\/span>));\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/span>fs.Close();<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n