将XML文档反序列化为通讯录

Question

I have searched through multiple examples at this point all detailing different methods of Deserializing, Serializing or even other random unrelated processes which I probably should have ignored but kept reading anyway out of desperation.

I want to Deserialize this XML document:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<AddressBook>
<Contact>
    <Name>Steve Man</Name>
        <ContactType>Family</ContactType>
        <DateofBirth>1992-07-10T00:00:00</DateofBirth>
        <AddressLine1>123 Fake Street</AddressLine1>
        <AddressLine2>New Worthington</AddressLine2>
        <AddressLine3>Regalpark</AddressLine3>
        <AddressLine4 />
        <Postcode>RP3 6BG</Postcode>
        <Email1>Steve@gmail.com</Email1>
        <Email2>Steve@tiscali.co.uk</Email2>
        <Phone>01422951283</Phone>
        <Mobile>07559213822/Mobile>
        <AdditionalInfo>This is that weird guy.</AdditionalInfo>
</Contact>

Into the above mentioned AddressBook object in a C# windows form application, the contents of which will come from the data in the XML document.

After being Deserialized (or so I'm told) I can then use the objects it makes from this process directly with the Application itself, meaning I can Display/Edit/Delete them as need be.

Then after edits have been made the new data would need to be Serialized back into the original XML format for storage.

I apologize if this comes across as a stupid/duplicate question but I'm pretty new to C# and have had a long time of reading and struggling and would greatly appreciate any input you can provide, if the question needs any adjusting or you need more info then I will be happy to provide it.

Answer 1

First of all I would like to point you to this page. http://azuliadesigns.com/xml-serialization-deserialization/

You should use this code to serialize a list of Contact objects. I believe below code should do the trick for you

XmlSerializer mySerializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(List<Contact>));
    StreamWriter myWriter = new StreamWriter("c:/addressbook.xml");
    mySerializer.Serialize(myWriter, test);
    myWriter.Close();

And to deserialize

  List<Contact> test;

  XmlSerializer mySerializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(List<Contact>));
  FileStream myFileStream = new FileStream("c:/addressbook.xml",FileMode.Open);

  test = (List<Contact>)mySerializer.Deserialize(myFileStream);

I didn't change the variable names to make it as clear as possible. I use this method to serialize and deserialize my settings object.

And your Contact class should look like

[Serializable]
public class Contact
{
    public string Name "";
}