Reading an XML file into a collection

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Hello

I've created the following XML file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Company>
<Languages>
<Language>
<Name>English</Name>
<Code>1234</Code>
<Connect>54</Flag>
</Language>
<Language>
<Name>French</Name>
<Code>4567</Code>
</Language>
</Languages>
</Company>

I've also created a Language class that has the following properties
- string Name
- int Code
- int Connect

And a Language collection class called LanguageCollection.

Can someone please tell me what is the easiest / best way is to read the
values from the XML file and store them in a collection of Language of
objects.

Please note that not ever Language will be fully populated in the XML file.
For example, the French language doesn't have a Connect value in the above
XML file
Thank you for your help.

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Mark Collard <Ma*********@discussions.microsoft.comwrote:

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Can someone please tell me what is the easiest / best way is to read the
values from the XML file and store them in a collection of Language of
objects.

Which version of .NET are you using? With .NET 3.5 you can use LINQ to
XML, which will make life *much* easier.

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[Kevin Spencer]

Create XML-Serializable classes. Use the XML format which they produce when
serialized. Then you can just deserialize the XML back to class instances.

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Kevin Spencer
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Microsoft MVP

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Hello

I've created the following XML file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Company>
<Languages>
<Language>
<Name>English</Name>
<Code>1234</Code>
<Connect>54</Flag>
</Language>
<Language>
<Name>French</Name>
<Code>4567</Code>
</Language>
</Languages>
</Company>

I've also created a Language class that has the following properties
- string Name
- int Code
- int Connect

And a Language collection class called LanguageCollection.

Can someone please tell me what is the easiest / best way is to read the
values from the XML file and store them in a collection of Language of
objects.

Please note that not ever Language will be fully populated in the XML
file.
For example, the French language doesn't have a Connect value in the above
XML file
Thank you for your help.