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I was curiout about this tool in Microsoft which can generate classes to serialize/deserialize XSD based xml files back and forth. I installed the tool provided  by microsoft in my previous column. Created a small project with customers/customer xml snippet and tested it. It was simple and worked great.

To read existing xml generated for xsd:

private void ReadExistingFile(ref FileStream fStream, ref MemoryStream mStream)
 {
 fStream = new FileStream(”XMLFile1.xml”, FileMode.Open);

 byte[] byteArray = new byte[90000];
 mStream = new MemoryStream(byteArray);

 // root xsd class
 XmlSerializer s = new XmlSerializer(typeof(customers));
 customers allcustomers = (customers)s.Deserialize(fStream);

 foreach (customer c in allcustomers)
 {
 textBox1.Text += c.id + “\r\n”;
 }
 }

Also to create a new snippet:

private static FileStream WriteANewXMLForThisXSDGeneratedClass(FileStream fStream2)
 {
 // write something new
 fStream2 = new FileStream(”XMLFile2.xml”, FileMode.Create);
 customers tobeWritten = new customers();
 customer muthu = new customer();
 muthu.id = “one”;
 muthu.name = “muthu”;

 customer kumar = new customer();
 kumar.id = “two”;
 kumar.name = “kumar”;

 tobeWritten.Add(muthu);
 tobeWritten.Add(kumar);

 XmlSerializer s = new XmlSerializer(typeof(customers));
 s.Serialize(fStream2, tobeWritten);
 return fStream2;
 }

It’s really cool…..

• Download the entire solution from here: Sample

Sometimes, you might have found some schema files which you wanted to manipulate in your code with .NET. Microsoft provides a sample XSD to C#/VB.NET converter as a download to do this task yourself. Please at the following details to download it and use it.

== FROM Microsoft ==

Overview

The Sample Code Generator (XSDObjectGen) tool takes an XSD schema as input and generates sample code showing how to mark up C# and VB.Net classes so that when serialized with the XML serializer, the resulting XML will be valid according to the original schema. This update fixes some documentation changes and corrects a problem where the wizard did not generate code in some environments.

Link: Download