public static bool UserPropertiesToXml(UserProperties userProperties, out XmlDocument returnXmlDocument)
{
returnXmlDocument = new XmlDocument();
try
{
System.IO.MemoryStream memoryStream = new System.IO.MemoryStream();
XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(UserProperties));
serializer.Serialize(memoryStream, userProperties);
string xmlString = ASCIIEncoding.UTF8.GetString(memoryStream.ToArray());
//HACK: similiarly to creating an xml file via right clicking the project and making a new file,
// when windows creates an xml file, it tags on a hidden character at the beginning of the file. we have seen this problem before
// apparently this ALSO happens when creating an xml file with the XmlWriter.. which happens when we Serialize UserProperties to Xml
// to prevent against this error when loading a string generated from an xml writer, we grab the substring of <UserProperties> ... </UserProperties>
// this manages to successfully strip out the beginning junk character
// we should eventually find a better way to do this.. but for now, it does the trick
int indexOfUserPropertiesTag = xmlString.IndexOf("<" + ConstStrings.kUserProperties + ">");
xmlString = xmlString.Substring(indexOfUserPropertiesTag, xmlString.Length - indexOfUserPropertiesTag);
returnXmlDocument.LoadXml(xmlString);
return(true);
}
catch (System.Exception ex)
{
throw ex;
}
}
public static bool UserPropertiesFromXml(XmlNode xmlNode, out UserProperties userProperties)
{
userProperties = null;
try
{
XmlReader xmlReader = new XmlNodeReader(xmlNode);
XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(UserProperties));
userProperties = (UserProperties)serializer.Deserialize(xmlReader);
return(true);
}
catch (System.Exception ex)
{
throw ex;
}
}