Ok, I think I found a way to do thanks to Marc Clifton articale on
CodeProject (
http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/MycroXaml.asp).
The XML file can be somthing like that:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<System Name="System">
<Paramaters>
<Speed type="System.Iint32">111</Speed >
<_xAxis type="System.Single">222</_xAxis>
<_yAxis type="System.Double">333</_yAxis>
<_ID type="System.Int64">444</_ID>
<_Name type="System.String">String value...</_Name>
</Paramaters>
</System>
And the C# code can be:
System.IO.StreamReader sr = new System.IO.StreamReader("TypesDef.xml");
string text = sr.ReadToEnd();
sr.Close();
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.LoadXml(text);
XmlNode node = doc.FirstChild;
while( node.NodeType.ToString() != "Element" )
{
node = node.NextSibling;
}
XmlNode paramsNode = doc.SelectSingleNode("//Paramaters");
XmlNodeList nodeList = paramsNode.ChildNodes;
Hashtable verTypes = new Hashtable(nodeList.Count);
string typeName = "";
Type type;
foreach( XmlNode xmlNode in nodeList )
{
XmlAttribute attr = xmlNode.Attributes["type"];
typeName = attr.Value;
if( typeName == "System.String" )
{
verTypes[xmlNode.Name] = xmlNode.InnerText;
}
else
{
type = Type.GetType(typeName, false);
object typeIntance = Activator.CreateInstance(type);
System.Reflection.MethodInfo Parse = type.GetMethod("Parse", new Type
[] {typeof(String)});
verTypes[xmlNode.Name] = Parse.Invoke(type, new object[]
{xmlNode.InnerText});
}
}
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Regards
Sharon