Serialization from Xml into Object

[Arjay]

Does Silverlight support the XmlSerializer class?

If so, create a couple of classes with Xml attributes:

namespace CG
{
  #region Using Directives
  using System;
  using System.Collections.Generic;
  using System.Xml;
  using System.Xml.Serialization;
  #endregion Using Directives
 
  ///<summary>
  /// Serialization class used to read the teamtable
  ///</summary>
  [Serializable]
  [XmlType( AnonymousType = true )]
  [XmlRoot( ElementName = "TeamTable", Namespace = "", IsNullable = false )]
  publicclassTeams
  {
    ///<summary/>
    publicstaticTeams Open( string configFile )
    {
      var serializer = newXmlSerializer( typeof( Teams ) );

      using ( var reader = XmlReader.Create( configFile ) )
      {
        return ( Teams ) serializer.Deserialize( reader );
      }
    }
 
    ///<remarks/>
    [XmlElement( "TeamRow", IsNullable = false )]
    publicTeam [ ] Rows
    {
      get
      {
        return _rows.ToArray( );
      }
      set
      {
        if ( null == _rows )
        {
          _rows = newList<Team>( );
        }
        _rows.AddRange( value );
      }
    }
    
    privateList<Team> _rows = newList<Team>( );
  }
 
  ///<remarks/>
  [Serializable]
  [XmlType( AnonymousType = true )]
  publicclassTeam
  {
    ///<remarks/>
    [XmlAttribute( AttributeName = "Id" )]
    publicint Id { get { return _id; } set { _id = value; } }
 
    ///<remarks/>
    [XmlAttribute( AttributeName = "Name" )]
    publicstring Name { get { return _name; } set { _name = value; } }


    privateint _id;
    privatestring _name;
  }
}

Then loading up the xml is:

var teamList = newList<Team>( );
 
// Loads the xml into a Teams instance
var teams = Teams.Open("teams.xml");  
 
// Retrieve the TeamRows
teamList.AddRange( teams.Rows );