Microsoft® Visual C#® .NET 2003 Unleashed

Serialization XML Style

XML serialization enables us to transform an instance of some class to XML and vice versa. Developers often need to perform XML serialization.

Using Basic XML Serialization

Listing 8.12 presents an example of XML serialization. In this example, there is a simple class that needs to be serialized: CellPhone. The first step is to create an instance of the class XmlSerializer and initialize is with the type XMLSerializationSample.CellPhone. Next, the CellPhone class is instantiated and the properties set to the desired values. Finally, the Serialize method is invoked and the CellPhone is serialized.

Listing 8.12. XML Serialization Example

using System; using System.Xml.Serialization; namespace XMLSerializationSample { public ...