Deserialize XML to C# object

In this post we will see the simple approach to deserialize XML to C# object.

Our XML String

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1	string xmlString = "<Students><Student><Id>1</Id><Name>Manish Dubey</Name></Student><Student><Id>2</Id><Name>Pankaj</Name></Student></Students>";

Create our class

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public class Student {   public int Id { get; set; }   public string Name { get; set; } }

Create XML Serializer and StringReader Object

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//First argument is type of object and second argument is root attribute of your XML string/source     XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(List<student>), new XmlRootAttribute("Students"));   StringReader stringReader = new StringReader(xmlString);

At last, deserialize XMl to C# object

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1	List<student> studentList = (List<student>)serializer.Deserialize(stringReader);

Output

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