Christoph;
Thanks for that link - looks like a lot of good resources
As for my project, I found that my approach was giving an extra layer of
arrays - I am trying to work that out now. May be back for more help.
Wayne
"Christoph Schittko [MVP]" <INVALIDEMAIL@austin.rr.com> wrote in message
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>
> I'm sorry, I didn't scroll down far enough last night to find the XML
> AND I didn't paste the link ... bad christoph
>
> The link I meant to include was:
>
>
http://www.topxml.com/xmlserializer/...on_classes.asp.
>
> Looking at your classes though, this class definition would match
>
> <XmlArray("JudgeTableEntity"), XmlArrayItem("Judge", IsNullable:=True)>
> _
>
> Public Judges() As Judge
>
>
> This XML:
>
> <JudgeTableEntity>
> <Judge>
> ...
> </Judge>
> <Judge>
> ...
> </Judge>
> </JudgeTableEntity>
>
> Because you declare the class to map to XML with an enclosing XmlArray
> item <JudgeTableEntity> for array item elements <Judge>.
>
> In the example XML you posted though, there is no enclosing element
> around the array items. Instead, the array items are JudgeTableEntity
> elements.
>
> Change the class definition to:
>
> <XmlElement("JudgeTableEntity", IsNullable:=True)> _
> Public Judges() As Judge
>
> And you should be good to go.
>
> HTH,
> Christoph Schittko
> MVP XML
>
http://weblogs.asp.net/cschittko
>
>[color=green]
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Wayne Wengert [mailto:wayneDONTWANTSPAM@wengert.com]
> > Posted At: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 3:28 PM
> > Posted To: microsoft.public.dotnet.xml
> > Conversation: Deserializing an array
> > Subject: Re: Deserializing an array
> >
> > Christoph;
> >
> > The code and XML was included in the post. I went to your web site but[/color]
> did[color=green]
> > not find the tutorial you mentioned. Exactly where is it?
> >
> > Wayne
> >
> > "Christoph Schittko [MVP]" <INVALIDEMAIL@austin.rr.com> wrote in[/color]
> message[color=green]
> > news:eiZk9c1AFHA.3376@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...[color=darkred]
> > >
> > > Wayne,
> > >
> > > It's hard to tell what's going on without seeing code and/or XML. I[/color][/color]
> have[color=green][color=darkred]
> > > a tutorial on serializing and deserializing arrays at [0]. Take a[/color][/color]
> look[color=green][color=darkred]
> > > and feel free to post back if you have additional questions.
> > >
> > > HTH,
> > > Christoph Schittko
> > > MVP XML
> > >
http://weblogs.asp.net/cschittko
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Wayne Wengert [mailto:wayneDONTWANTSPAM@wengert.com]
> > > > Posted At: Monday, January 24, 2005 5:25 AM
> > > > Posted To: microsoft.public.dotnet.xml
> > > > Conversation: Deserializing an array
> > > > Subject: Deserializing an array
> > > >
> > > > Using VB.NET I want to read in an XML file that has an array of
> > > objects
> > > > and
> > > > then step through the resulting array in code. I build a class to
> > > define
> > > > the
> > > > structure and I am running code to read in the data but I can't[/color][/color]
> figure[color=green][color=darkred]
> > > out
> > > > where the data is in the resulting array. Most of the relevant[/color][/color]
> code is[color=green][color=darkred]
> > > > below. When I run the code to desrialize I get no errors but if I[/color][/color]
> try[color=green][color=darkred]
> > > to
> > > > look at some of the data via the command window I get errors such[/color][/color]
> as[color=green][color=darkred]
> > > this:
> > > >
> > > > ?judges2.Judges(0).JudgeFirstName
> > > >
> > > > Index '0' for dimension '0' is out of range.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > What am I missing here?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Wayne
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ================= Execution Code =======================
> > > >
> > > > Private Sub btnImport_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e[/color][/color]
> As[color=green][color=darkred]
> > > > System.EventArgs) Handles btnImport.Click
> > > >
> > > > ReadJudgesTable("c:\2005 WGI\WGI Tabulation Program\Data
> > > > Files\data\JudgesTable.xml")
> > > >
> > > > End Sub
> > > >
> > > > Protected Sub ReadJudgesTable(ByVal filename As String)
> > > >
> > > > Dim ser As New XmlSerializer(GetType(ArrayOfJudgeTableEntity))
> > > >
> > > > ' Read In the Judges table
> > > >
> > > > Dim fs2 As New FileStream(filename, FileMode.Open)
> > > >
> > > > ' Deserialize into another instance of ArrayOfJudgeTableEntity
> > > >
> > > > Dim judges2 As ArrayOfJudgeTableEntity =[/color][/color]
> CType(ser.Deserialize(fs2),[color=green][color=darkred]
> > > > ArrayOfJudgeTableEntity)
> > > >
> > > > fs2.Close()
> > > >
> > > > MsgBox("JudgesTable has been deserialized - I hope",
> > > > MsgBoxStyle.Exclamation, "Got Judges")
> > > >
> > > > End Sub
> > > >
> > > > ================================================== ==
> > > >
> > > > ================== Class Definition ==================
> > > >
> > > > Imports System.Xml
> > > >
> > > > Imports System.Xml.Serialization
> > > >
> > > > Imports System.Collections
> > > >
> > > > Public Class ArrayOfJudgeTableEntity
> > > >
> > > > <XmlArray("JudgeTableEntity"), XmlArrayItem("Judge",
> > > IsNullable:=True)> _
> > > >
> > > > Public Judges() As Judge
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Public Sub New()
> > > >
> > > > End Sub 'New
> > > >
> > > > 'Public Sub New(ByVal id As String, ByVal fn As String, ByVal ln[/color][/color]
> As[color=green][color=darkred]
> > > > String,
> > > > ByVal type As String)
> > > >
> > > > ' JudgeID = id
> > > >
> > > > ' JudgeFirstName = fn
> > > >
> > > > ' JudgeFirstName = ln
> > > >
> > > > ' JudgeType = type
> > > >
> > > > 'End Sub 'New
> > > >
> > > > End Class 'ArrayOfJudgeTableEntity
> > > >
> > > > Public Class Judge
> > > >
> > > > Public JudgeID As String
> > > >
> > > > Public JudgeFirstName As String
> > > >
> > > > Public JudgeLastName As String
> > > >
> > > > Public JudgeType As String
> > > >
> > > > Public Sub New()
> > > >
> > > > End Sub 'New
> > > >
> > > > Public Sub New(ByVal id As String, ByVal fn As String, ByVal ln As
> > > String,
> > > > ByVal type As String)
> > > >
> > > > JudgeID = id
> > > >
> > > > JudgeType = type
> > > >
> > > > JudgeFirstName = fn
> > > >
> > > > JudgeLastName = ln
> > > >
> > > > End Sub 'New
> > > >
> > > > End Class 'Judge
> > > >
> > > > ====================================
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > =========== Sample XML Data ================
> > > >
> > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> > > > <ArrayOfJudgeTableEntity[/color][/color]
> xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"[color=green][color=darkred]
> > > > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
> > > > <JudgeTableEntity>
> > > > <JudgeId>63371991-cdf9-4cc5-99c1-a42c599498f8</JudgeId>
> > > > <JudgeFirstName>Kristen</JudgeFirstName>
> > > > <JudgeLastName>O'Melia</JudgeLastName>
> > > > <JudgeType>Equipment</JudgeType>
> > > > </JudgeTableEntity>
> > > > <JudgeTableEntity>
> > > > <JudgeId>ce2c0c6e-4094-43da-9d8c-9726d81b017e</JudgeId>
> > > > <JudgeFirstName>Smith</JudgeFirstName>
> > > > <JudgeLastName>Dan</JudgeLastName>
> > > > <JudgeType>Movement</JudgeType>
> > > > </JudgeTableEntity>
> > > > <JudgeTableEntity>
> > > > <JudgeId>efe977f6-04ec-4a65-ae46-34b0f75de87f</JudgeId>
> > > > <JudgeFirstName>Kathy</JudgeFirstName>
> > > > <JudgeLastName>Whitcomb</JudgeLastName>
> > > > <JudgeType>Ensemble Color Guard</JudgeType>
> > > > </JudgeTableEntity>
> > > > <JudgeTableEntity>
> > > > <JudgeId>99d92f77-39e1-46b8-b9e2-446b8cea1b0c</JudgeId>
> > > > <JudgeFirstName>Shirlee</JudgeFirstName>
> > > > <JudgeLastName>Whitcomb</JudgeLastName>
> > > > <JudgeType>General Effect Color Guard</JudgeType>
> > > > </JudgeTableEntity>
> > > > <JudgeTableEntity>
> > > > <JudgeId>f7ae92ef-9bb2-48fe-bbe8-3c566b924d0f</JudgeId>
> > > > <JudgeFirstName>George</JudgeFirstName>
> > > > <JudgeLastName>Oliviero</JudgeLastName>
> > > > <JudgeType>General Effect Color Guard</JudgeType>
> > > > </JudgeTableEntity>
> > > > <JudgeTableEntity>
> > > > <JudgeId>5e1cad18-4ef9-4625-99c2-ee12c2b05cda</JudgeId>
> > > > <JudgeFirstName>Lee</JudgeFirstName>
> > > > <JudgeLastName>Carpenter</JudgeLastName>
> > > > <JudgeType>Penalty</JudgeType>
> > > > </JudgeTableEntity>
> > > > </ArrayOfJudgeTableEntity>
> > > >
> > > > ==========================================
> > >
> > >[/color][/color]
>
>[/color]
