How to Deserialize XML using DataContractSerializer

Question

I\'m trying to deserialize an xml document:

Answer 1

I figured it out. Maybe there are other implementations but this works. For the life of me I couldn't find any examples that use List inside an object. Here is a working example:

XML document to parse:

               

    
        TEST1
        TESTGAME1
        1111111
        
            5,00
        
    
    
        TEST2
        TESTGAME2
        222222
        
            0,30
            0,90
        
    

.cs class:

namespace XmlParse
{
    using System;
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.Globalization;
    using System.Runtime.Serialization;

    [DataContract(Name = "game", Namespace = "")]
    public class Game
    {
        [DataMember(Name = "name", Order = 0)]
        public string Name { get; private set; }

        [DataMember(Name = "code", Order = 1)]
        public string Code { get; private set; }

        [DataMember(Name = "ugn", Order = 2)]
        public string Ugn { get; private set; }

        [DataMember(Name = "bets", Order = 3)]
        public Bets Bets { get; private set; }
    }

    [CollectionDataContract(Name = "bets", ItemName = "bet", Namespace = "")]
    public class Bets : List
    {
        public List BetList
        {
            get
            {
                return ConvertAll(y => decimal.Parse(y, NumberStyles.Currency));
            }
        }
    }

    [CollectionDataContract(Name = "games", Namespace = "")]
    public class Games : List
    {
    }
}

Read and parse xml document:

string fileName = Path.Combine(this.path, "Document.xml");
DataContractSerializer dcs = new DataContractSerializer(typeof(Games));
FileStream fs = new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Open);
XmlDictionaryReader reader = XmlDictionaryReader.CreateTextReader(fs, new XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas());

Games games = (Games)dcs.ReadObject(reader);
reader.Close();
fs.Close();