/// <summary>
/// Deserialize the object of the given xml-file.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="filepath">The xml-file I was talking about</param>
/// <returns>A List containing all objects of the given file. Currently we should only have files with one object, though.</returns>
private static List <object> Deserialize(string filepath)
{
var ser = new NetDataContractSerializer();
var fs = new FileStream(filepath, FileMode.Open);
var reader = XmlDictionaryReader.CreateTextReader(fs, XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas.Max);
var deserializedObject = new List <object>();
while (reader.Read())
{
if (ser.IsStartObject(reader))
{
var o = ser.ReadObject(reader);
deserializedObject.Add(o);
}
break;
}
fs.Flush();
fs.Close();
return(deserializedObject);
}
//</snippet5>
//<snippet6>
public static void ReadObjectData(string path)
{
// Create the reader.
FileStream fs = new FileStream(path, FileMode.Open);
XmlDictionaryReader reader =
XmlDictionaryReader.CreateTextReader(fs, new XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas());
// Create the NetDataContractSerializer, specifying the type,
// root, and namespace to use. The root value corresponds
// to the DataContract.Name value, and the namespace value
// corresponds to the DataContract.Namespace value.
NetDataContractSerializer ser =
new NetDataContractSerializer();
// Test whether the serializer is on the start of the
// object data. If so, read the data and write it
// to the console.
while (reader.Read())
{
switch (reader.NodeType)
{
case XmlNodeType.Element:
if (ser.IsStartObject(reader))
{
Console.WriteLine("Found the element");
Person p = (Person)ser.ReadObject(reader);
Console.WriteLine("{0} {1} id:{2}",
p.FirstName, p.LastName, p.ID);
}
Console.WriteLine(reader.Name);
break;
}
}
fs.Flush();
fs.Close();
}