I am new to C# and I am trying to read an XML file and transfer its contents to C# object(s).
e.g. An example XML file could be:
<people>
<person>
<name>Person 1</name>
<age>21</age>
</person>
<person>
<name>Person 2</name>
<age>22</age>
</person>
</people>
.. could be mapped to an array of C# class called 'Person':
Person[] people;
Where a Person object could contain the following fields:
string name;
uint age;
It sounds like you want use XML serialization. There is a lot already out there, but this is a pretty simple example. http://www.switchonthecode.com/tutorials/csharp-tutorial-xml-serialization
The snippet you want is about 1/4 of the way down:
XmlSerializer deserializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(List<Movie>));
TextReader textReader = new StreamReader(@"C:\movie.xml");
List<Movie> movies;
movies = (List<Movie>)deserializer.Deserialize(textReader);
textReader.Close();
Hopefully, this helps
You can use the XmlSerializer class to serialize CLR Objects into XML. Here is the MSDN documentation with some sample code : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.serialization.xmlserializer.aspx
