/Visual Studio 2008/CSXmlSerialization/Program.cs

/****************************** Module Header ******************************\

* Module Name:  Program.cs

* Project:      CSXmlSerialization

* Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.

* 

* This sample shows how to serialize an in-memory object to a local xml file 

* and how to deserialize the xml file back to an in-memory object using 

* C#. The designed MySerializableType includes int, string, generic, as well

* as customized type field and property.

* 

* This source is subject to the Microsoft Public License.

* See http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/licenses.mspx#Ms-PL.

* All other rights reserved.

* 

* History:

* * 7/29/2009 3:00 PM Colbert Zhou Created

* * 8/20/2009 12:01 AM Jialiang Ge Reviewed

\***************************************************************************/



#region Using directives

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using System.Xml;

using System.Xml.Serialization;

using System.IO;

using System.Collections;

#endregion





namespace CSXmlSerialization

{

    class Program

    {

        static void Main(string[] args)

        {

            /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

            // Serialize the object to an XML file.

            // 



            // Create and initialize a MySerializableType instance.

            MySerializableType instance = new MySerializableType();

            instance.BoolValue = true;

            instance.IntValue = 1;

            instance.StringValue = "Test String";

            instance.ListValue.Add("List Item 1");

            instance.ListValue.Add("List Item 2");

            instance.ListValue.Add("List Item 3");

            instance.AnotherTypeValue = new AnotherType();

            instance.AnotherTypeValue.IntValue = 2;

            instance.AnotherTypeValue.StringValue = "Inner Test String";



            // Create the serializer

            XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(MySerializableType));



            // Serialize the object to an XML file

            using (StreamWriter streamWriter = File.CreateText(

                "CSXmlSerialization.xml"))

            {

                serializer.Serialize(streamWriter, instance);

            }





            /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

            // Deserialize from a XML file to an object instance.

            // 



            // Deserialize the object

            MySerializableType deserializedInstance;

            using (StreamReader streamReader = File.OpenText(

                "CSXmlSerialization.xml"))

            {

                deserializedInstance = serializer.Deserialize(streamReader) 

                    as MySerializableType;

            }



            // Dump the object

            Console.WriteLine("BoolValue: {0}", deserializedInstance.BoolValue);

            Console.WriteLine("IntValue: {0}", deserializedInstance.IntValue);

            Console.WriteLine("StringValue: {0}", deserializedInstance.StringValue);

            Console.WriteLine("AnotherTypeValue.IntValue: {0}", 

                deserializedInstance.AnotherTypeValue.IntValue);

            Console.WriteLine("AnotherTypeValue.StringValue: {0}", 

                deserializedInstance.AnotherTypeValue.StringValue);

            Console.WriteLine("ListValue: ");

            foreach (object obj in deserializedInstance.ListValue)

            {

                Console.WriteLine(obj.ToString());

            }

        }

    }





    /// <summary>

    /// Serializable Type Declaration

    /// </summary>

    [Serializable()]

    public class MySerializableType

    {

        // String field and property

        private string stringValue;

        public string StringValue

        {

            get { return stringValue; }

            set { stringValue = value; }

        }



        // Bool field and property

        private bool boolValue;

        public bool BoolValue

        {

            get { return boolValue; }

            set { boolValue = value; }

        }



        // Int field and property

        private int intValue;

        public int IntValue

        {

            get { return intValue; }

            set { intValue = value; }

        }



        // Another type field and property

        private AnotherType anotherTypeValue;

        public AnotherType AnotherTypeValue

        {

            get { return anotherTypeValue; }

            set { anotherTypeValue = value; }

        }



        // Generic type field and property

        private List<string> listValue = new List<string>();

        public List<string> ListValue

        {

            get { return listValue; }

            set { listValue = value; }

        }



        // Ignore a field using NonSerialized attribute

        [NonSerialized()]

        private int ignoredField = 1;

    }



    /// <summary>

    /// Another Type Declaration

    /// </summary>

    [Serializable()]

    public class AnotherType

    {

        private string stringValue;

        public string StringValue

        {

            get { return stringValue; }

            set { stringValue = value; }

        }



        private int intValue;

        public int IntValue

        {

            get { return intValue; }

            set { intValue = value; }

        }

    }

}