Deserialize Serialize this example:

[Peter]

How would would you deserialize this example below?

Imports System
Imports System.Collecti ons
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Xml.Seri alization

Public Class App1

Shared Sub Main()
Dim list As ArrayList = New ArrayList()
Dim out As StreamWriter = New StreamWriter("a rray.xml")
Dim ser As XmlSerializer = New XMLSerializer(l ist.GetType())

list.Add("a")
list.Add("2")
list.Add("three ")

ser.Serialize(o ut, list)
End Sub
End Class

[Cor Ligthert]

Peter,

I think that you are confusing us. What you are trying to do is not
serializing in my opinion.

Shared Sub Main()
Dim list As ArrayList = New ArrayList()
Dim out As StreamWriter = New StreamWriter("a rray.xml")
Dim ser As XmlSerializer = New XMLSerializer(l ist.GetType())

list.Add("a")
list.Add("2")
list.Add("three ")

ser.Serialize(o ut, list)

This seems if you want to convert a kind of XML document to an arraylist.
That is not serializing. That is using the XMLNodeReader. See this sample
that I once made, just as a start because it needs a lot more.

\\\\
Dim xmlString As String = "<departmen t>" & _
"<employee name=""ABC"" age=""31"" sex=""male""/>" & _
"<employee name=""CDE"" age=""40"" sex=""male""/></department>"
Dim sr As New System.IO.Strin gReader(xmlStri ng)
Dim doc As New Xml.XmlDocument
doc.Load(sr)
'or just in this case doc.LoadXML(xml String)
Dim reader As New Xml.XmlNodeRead er(doc)
While reader.Read()
Select Case reader.NodeType
Case Xml.XmlNodeType .Element
If reader.Name = "employee" Then
MessageBox.Show (reader.GetAttr ibute("name"))
End If
End Select
End While
///

I hope this helps?

Cor

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Cor Ligthert" <no************ @planet.nl> schrieb:

I think that you are confusing us. What you are trying to do is not
serializing in my opinion.

Shared Sub Main()
Dim list As ArrayList = New ArrayList()
Dim out As StreamWriter = New StreamWriter("a rray.xml")
Dim ser As XmlSerializer = New XMLSerializer(l ist.GetType())

list.Add("a")
list.Add("2")
list.Add("three ")

ser.Serialize(o ut, list)

This seems if you want to convert a kind of XML document to an arraylist.
That is not serializing.

Huh?! The OP simply wants to deserialize an arraylist that has been
serialized to XML.

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

[Cor Ligthert]

Huh?! The OP simply wants to deserialize an arraylist that has been
serialized to XML.

Why do you than not give a "simple" sample for that

Cor

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Cor Ligthert" <no************ @planet.nl> schrieb:

Huh?! The OP simply wants to deserialize an arraylist that has been
serialized to XML.

Why do you than not give a "simple" sample for that

There is no guarantee that I'll answer a question.

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

[Cor Ligthert]

Herfried,

Huh?! The OP simply wants to deserialize an arraylist that has been
serialized to XML.
Why do you than not give a "simple" sample for that

There is no guarantee that I'll answer a question.

You said it was simple, so I could not resist that was the only reason.

:-)

Cor

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hi************ ***@gmx.at> "Cor Ligthert" <no************ @planet.nl> schrieb:
--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

Cor

I think that you are confusing us. What you are trying to do is not
serializing in my opinion. Huh????

You may want to review MSDN on what the XmlSerializer in .NET is!

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...classtopic.asp

<quote>
XmlSerializer

Serializes and deserializes objects into and from XML documents.
</quote>

To Deserialize an object that was serialized with XmlSerializer you simply
call, wait for it, the Deserialize method!

ser.Serialize(o ut, list)
Dim ser As XmlSerializer = New XMLSerializer(l ist.GetType())

Dim input As StreamReader
list = ser.Deserialze( input)

For a more complete example see my other post.

Hope this helps
Jay

"Cor Ligthert" <no************ @planet.nl> wrote in message
news:eC******** ******@tk2msftn gp13.phx.gbl... Peter,

I think that you are confusing us. What you are trying to do is not
serializing in my opinion.

Shared Sub Main()
Dim list As ArrayList = New ArrayList()
Dim out As StreamWriter = New StreamWriter("a rray.xml")
Dim ser As XmlSerializer = New XMLSerializer(l ist.GetType())

list.Add("a")
list.Add("2")
list.Add("three ")

ser.Serialize(o ut, list)

This seems if you want to convert a kind of XML document to an arraylist.
That is not serializing. That is using the XMLNodeReader. See this sample
that I once made, just as a start because it needs a lot more.

\\\\
Dim xmlString As String = "<departmen t>" & _
"<employee name=""ABC"" age=""31"" sex=""male""/>" & _
"<employee name=""CDE"" age=""40"" sex=""male""/></department>"
Dim sr As New System.IO.Strin gReader(xmlStri ng)
Dim doc As New Xml.XmlDocument
doc.Load(sr)
'or just in this case doc.LoadXML(xml String)
Dim reader As New Xml.XmlNodeRead er(doc)
While reader.Read()
Select Case reader.NodeType
Case Xml.XmlNodeType .Element
If reader.Name = "employee" Then
MessageBox.Show (reader.GetAttr ibute("name"))
End If
End Select
End While
///

I hope this helps?

Cor

[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

Peter,
If you use XMLSerializer.S erialize to serialize an object, you can use
XMLSerializer.D eserialize to deserialize the object.

Something like:

Dim ser As XmlSerializer = New XMLSerializer(G etType(ArrayLis t))
Dim input As StreamReader = New StreamReader("a rray.xml")
Dim list As ArrayList = DirectCast(ser. Deserialize(inp ut),
ArrayList)
input.Close()

For information on the XMLSerializer class with examples, see:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ialization.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...classtopic.asp

Hope this helps
Jay
"Peter" <pe***@mclinn.c om> wrote in message
news:dc******** *************** ***@posting.goo gle.com...

How would would you deserialize this example below?

Imports System
Imports System.Collecti ons
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Xml.Seri alization

Public Class App1

Shared Sub Main()
Dim list As ArrayList = New ArrayList()
Dim out As StreamWriter = New StreamWriter("a rray.xml")
Dim ser As XmlSerializer = New XMLSerializer(l ist.GetType())

list.Add("a")
list.Add("2")
list.Add("three ")

ser.Serialize(o ut, list)
End Sub
End Class

[Cor Ligthert]

Jay,

I had changed my mind already and had reviewed these articles therefore
"again" on saterday.

And tried some things with using the arraylist with that, however I have not
the idea it is easy to create nodes from the objects from an arraylist, and
therefore I waited on a more concrete answer from Peter.

As well do I think it is much easier only to serialize an arraylist and not
try to bring it to an XML document. However that is as well waiting for an
answer from Peter.

Thanks any way for sending the links you could not know that.

Cor

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Cor Ligthert" <no************ @planet.nl> schrieb:

I had changed my mind already and had reviewed these articles therefore
"again" on saterday.

And tried some things with using the arraylist with that, however I have
not the idea it is easy to create nodes from the objects from an
arraylist, and therefore I waited on a more concrete answer from Peter.

As well do I think it is much easier only to serialize an arraylist and
not try to bring it to an XML document. However that is as well waiting
for an answer from Peter.

Thanks any way for sending the links you could not know that.

Huh (again)?!

When using XML serialization to serialize the arraylist, you don't need to
deal with 'XMLDocument' and nodes at all. The serializer/deserializer will
do that for you.

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>