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Tool that can combine many XSD files into one?

What you can do is to create another new file called file.xsd containing all the schema names in it and then the trick is to name the last schema file with .\ as prefix. File.xsd <xsd xmlns=”http://microsoft.com/dotnet/tools/xsd/”> <generateClasses language=”CS” namespace=”MyNamespace”> <schema>First.xsd</schema> <schema>Second.xsd</schema> <!– more schema files here –> <schema>.\Third.xsd</schema> </generateClasses> </xsd> Now run the command … Read more

How do you use XMLSerialize for Enum typed properties in c#?

As per Darin Dimitrov’s answer – only extra thing I’d point out is that if you want control over how your enum fields are serialized out then you can decorate each field with the XmlEnum attribute. public enum Simple { [XmlEnum(Name=”First”)] one, [XmlEnum(Name=”Second”)] two, [XmlEnum(Name=”Third”)] three, }

Slow SoapHttpClientProtocol constructor

The following is ripped from this thread on the VMWare forums: Hi folks, We’ve found that sgen.exe does work. It’just that there is a couple of additional steps beyond pre-generating the serializer dll’s that we missed in this thread. Here is the detailed instruction PROBLEM When using the VIM 2.0 SDK from .NET requires long … Read more

How to deserialize only part of an XML document in C#

It might be a bit old thread, but i will post anyway. i had the same problem (needed to deserialize like 10kb of data from a file that had more than 1MB). In main object (which has a InnerObject that needs to be deserializer) i implemented a IXmlSerializable interface, then changed the ReadXml method. We … Read more

Using XmlSerializer with an array in the root element

You should use [XmlElement], and not [XmlArray] to decorate the Items property – it’s already an array, and you only want to set the element name. public class StackOverflow_12924221 { [XmlRoot(“scan_details”)] public class ScanDetails { [XmlElement(“object”)] public ScanDetail[] Items { get; set; } } public class ScanDetail { [XmlAttribute(“name”)] public string Filename { get; set; … Read more

Serializing a Nullable in to XML

If you just want it to work, then perhaps: using System; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Xml.Serialization; public class Account { // your main property; TODO: your version [XmlIgnore] public Nullable<DateTime> AccountExpirationDate {get;set;} // this is a shim property that we use to provide the serialization [XmlAttribute(“AccountExpirationDate”)] [Browsable(false), EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Never)] public DateTime AccountExpirationDateSerialized { get {return AccountExpirationDate.Value;} set … Read more

Force XML serialization to serialize readonly property

Honestly this doesn’t seem too bad to me as long as it is documented You should probably throw an exception if the setter is actually called: /// <summary> /// Blah blah blah. /// </summary> /// <exception cref=”NotSupportedException”>Any use of the setter for this property.</exception> /// <remarks> /// This property is read only and should not … Read more

PHP Object as XML Document

I’d agree with using PEAR’s XML_Serializer, but if you want something simple that supports objects/arrays that have properties nested, you can use this. class XMLSerializer { // functions adopted from http://www.sean-barton.co.uk/2009/03/turning-an-array-or-object-into-xml-using-php/ public static function generateValidXmlFromObj(stdClass $obj, $node_block=’nodes’, $node_name=”node”) { $arr = get_object_vars($obj); return self::generateValidXmlFromArray($arr, $node_block, $node_name); } public static function generateValidXmlFromArray($array, $node_block=’nodes’, $node_name=”node”) { $xml=”<?xml … Read more

Is there a reason why a base class decorated with XmlInclude would still throw a type unknown exception when serialized?

The issue you are seeing is because the PaymentSummaryRequest is setting the Namespace. You can either remove the Namespace or add a Namespace to the PaymentSummary class: [XmlRoot(Namespace = Constants.Namespace)] [XmlInclude(typeof(xxxPaymentSummary))] public abstract class PaymentSummary { } As @Tedford mentions in his comment below the namespace is only required when using derived types. It looks … Read more

Using DataContractSerializer to serialize, but can’t deserialize back

Here is how I’ve always done it: public static string Serialize(object obj) { using(MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream()) using(StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(memoryStream)) { DataContractSerializer serializer = new DataContractSerializer(obj.GetType()); serializer.WriteObject(memoryStream, obj); memoryStream.Position = 0; return reader.ReadToEnd(); } } public static object Deserialize(string xml, Type toType) { using(Stream stream = new MemoryStream()) { byte[] data = … Read more