How to deserialize an XML with information about a custom ob

I was able to serialize a List of objects (List) using this code:

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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();
   }
}

However, I'm not able to deserialize using this code:

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public static object Deserialize(string xml, Type toType)
{
      using (Stream stream = new MemoryStream())
      {
         byte[] data = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(xml);
         stream.Write(data, 0, data.Length);
         stream.Position = 0;
         DataContractSerializer deserializer = new DataContractSerializer(toType);
         return deserializer.ReadObject(stream);
      }
}

I'm not able to understand the problem. I'm using the last method by calling it with:

Deserialize(SerializedObject, List), but I'm getting an error saying List is a type, which is not valid in the given context

Could anyone help? I'm a bit over my head with this.

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Mr Pogan10y ago
Sooo, I have the doubtful honor of answering my own question.

The problem was that I was trying to assign the output of

`public static object Deserialize(string xml, Type toType)`

to a List<FilesToProcess> generic called listOfFiles, when I should have assigned to an object and then cast to a `List<FilesToProcess>` using

List<FilesToProcess listOfFiles = (List<FilesToProcess)listOfFilesObject;