/// <summary>
/// Serialize XML
/// </summary>
/// <param name="emp"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
private static String SerializeXML(Company.Employee emp)
{
try
{
String XmlizedString = null;
XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Company.Employee));
//create an instance of the MemoryStream class since we intend to keep the XML string
//in memory instead of saving it to a file.
MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
//XmlTextWriter - fast, non-cached, forward-only way of generating streams or files
//containing XML data
XmlTextWriter xmlTextWriter = new XmlTextWriter(memoryStream, Encoding.UTF8);
//Serialize emp in the xmlTextWriter
xs.Serialize(xmlTextWriter, emp);
//Get the BaseStream of the xmlTextWriter in the Memory Stream
memoryStream = (MemoryStream)xmlTextWriter.BaseStream;
//Convert to array
XmlizedString = UTF8ByteArrayToString(memoryStream.ToArray());
return(XmlizedString);
}
catch (Exception)
{
throw;
}
}
public void AddEmployee(Employee employee)
{
if (employee == null)
{
throw new ArgumentNullException("employee", "Employee cannot be null.");
}
if (this.employees.ContainsKey(employee.Id))
{
throw new ArgumentException("This employee is already in the list.");
}
this.employees.Add(employee.Id, employee);
}
public int CompareTo(Employee other)
{
if (this.Id == other.Id)
{
return 0;
}
if (this.Id < other.Id)
{
return -1;
}
return 1;
}
public void AddEmployee(Employee emp)
{
this.employees.Add(emp);
}
public string Hire(Employee employeeName)
{
currentEmployees.Add(employeeName);
return ($"hired {employeeName.firstName} ");
}