Rahul  Ray

Rahul Ray

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Xml serialization and Deserialization

Mar 8 2010 12:48 AM


Xml Serialization
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Serialization;
public class Serialize<T>
{
/// <summary>
/// Used to serialize and then return xml string
/// </summary>
/// <param name="obj">T type</param>
/// <returns>String type</returns>
public static string SerializationObject(T obj)
{
try
{
string xmlstring = string.Empty;
MemoryStream memory = new MemoryStream();
XmlSerializer serialzer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
XmlTextWriter writer = new XmlTextWriter(memory,Encoding.ASCII);
serialzer.Serialize(writer, obj);
memory = (
MemoryStream)writer.BaseStream;
ASCIIEncoding encoding = new ASCIIEncoding();
xmlstring = encoding.GetString(memory.ToArray());
return xmlstring;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
return string.Empty;
}
}
 
/// <summary>
/// Used to Deserialize xml string and then return object
/// </summary>
/// <param name="XmlString">string xml serialized value</param>
/// <returns> Deserialized object</returns>
public static T DeserializationXMLString(string xmlString)
{
T obj =
default(T);
try
{
XmlSerializer xmlSerializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
StringReader stringReader = new StringReader(xmlString);
XmlTextReader xmlReader = new XmlTextReader(stringReader);
obj = (T)xmlSerializer.Deserialize(xmlReader);
xmlReader.Close();
stringReader.Close();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{ }
return obj;
}

 
/*Call the class*/
For serilization
Serialize<class1> serialize=new Serialize<class1>();
string xml=serialize.SerializationObject(class1 obj);
for deserialize
Serialize<class1> serialize=new Serialize<class1>();
class1 ca=new class1 ();
ca=serialize.DeserializationXMLString(xml);