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
