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   Home » C# Language » How do i covert a List colletion to XML?
       
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petre ricardo
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since Sep 12, 2009 
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How do i covert a List colletion to XML?

  Posted on: 04 Sep 2010       

hi freinds,
i have class User and i have a List Collection List<User> lstUsers that contains a list of User objects.
The user class contain the following:
public class User
{
      public property string userCode{get;set;}
      public property string userName{get;set;}
}
How do i convert the list collection to XML?
thanks

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Vasanth R
posted  9 posts
since  Sep 04, 2010 
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 Re: How do i covert a List colletion to XML?
  Posted on: 04 Sep 2010        0  
If you serialize the object, you will get it in xml format
Shankey
posted  179 posts
since  Aug 05, 2010 
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 Re: How do i covert a List colletion to XML?
  Posted on: 04 Sep 2010        0  
Hi, 
Below is your code, But dont forget to mark my answer as accepted if it helped you a little
using System.Xml.Serialization;
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlRootAttribute(Namespace="", IsNullable=false)]
public class User 
{
      public property string userCode{get;set;}
      public property string userName{get;set;}
}
 
following is you function
 /// <summary>

  /// Returns the xml as string based on user object values

  /// </summary>

  /// <param name="user">object that would be converted into xml</param>

  /// <returns></returns>

  public string UserXml(User user)
  {
   MemoryStream stream = null;
   TextWriter writer = null;
   try
   {
    stream = new MemoryStream(); // read xml in memory

    writer = new StreamWriter(stream, Encoding.Unicode) ;
    // get serialise object

    XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(user));
    serializer.Serialize(writer, user); // read object

    int count = (int) stream.Length; // saves object in memory stream

    byte[] arr = new byte[count];
    stream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
    // copy stream contents in byte array

    stream.Read(arr, 0, count);
    UnicodeEncoding utf = new UnicodeEncoding(); // convert byte array to string

    return utf.GetString(arr).Trim();
   }
   catch
   {
    return string.Empty;
   }
   finally
   {
    if(stream != null) stream.Close();
    if(writer != null) writer.Close();
   }
  }
If this post helped you, then tick the checkbox above "Do you like this Answer"
Shakey Shankey
Sam Hobbs
posted  5915 posts
since  Sep 07, 2009 
from  Los Angeles, California, USA

 Re: How do i covert a List colletion to XML?
  Posted on: 04 Sep 2010        0  
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