将XML响应字符串反序列化为C＃类

Question

I know there has been a good amount of posts on this, though I find this topic of .NET very difficult to comprehend. I have an XML string that looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<result command="searchhotels" tID="1460064669000001" ip="99.51.186.120"  date="2016-04-07 21:31:16" version="2.0" elapsedTime="7.1676669120789">
    <currencyShort>USD</currencyShort>
    <hotels count="2">
        <hotel runno="0" preferred="no" cityname="DUBAI" order="3" hotelid="275975">
            <from>292.767
                <formatted>292.77</formatted>
            </from>
            <availability>available</availability>
        </hotel>
        <hotel runno="1" preferred="yes" cityname="DUBAI" order="3" hotelid="31084">
            <from>278.7142
                <formatted>278.71</formatted>
            </from>
            <availability>available</availability>
        </hotel>
    </hotels>
    <successful>TRUE</successful>
</result>

I want to map this to a class, based on the documentation and posts that I've read I have no idea how to do this or what the class should look like. Help? Here is what I have so far....

"response" is the xml string... turning string into class:

        XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(TResponse));
        using (StringReader reader = new StringReader(response))
        {

            TResponse deserialized = (TResponse)serializer.Deserialize(reader);
            return deserialized;
        }

I do not know what the class should look like, I've tried turning that response into a C# class using online tools but nothing seems to work. So what should the class for this response look like? And how can I turn the string into this class?

Answer 1

Take a look at xsd.exe - google it - it is a little utility that you can use to generate .net class structures based on xml (it will infer structure) or xsd files.

With it you can generate a class that you can populate in your deserialization code.

Answer 2

If you just need to generate classes to deserialize your XML, you can try this online tool, Xml2CSharp . That shortcut might work.

Otherwise you'll need to generate a schema from your XML and then generate classes from the schema. This article describes the steps clearly.