Deserialization Error: The XML element 'name' from namespace '' is already present in the current scope

Question

This is my first time using XML Serialization and this is driving me absolutely nuts after 2 days of trying to troubleshoot this.

I get this error w

Answer 1

Personally, I wouldn't use constants here - they make it hard to spot errors (and since you probably aren't re-using them, don't add much). For example:

    [XmlElement (ElementName = ElementConstants.AlbumName, DataType = "string")]
    public string AlbumID { get; set; }
...
    [XmlElement(ElementName = ElementConstants.AlbumName, DataType = "string")]
    public string AlbumName { get; set; }

Looks suspect to me...

An easier approach is to write the xml you want to a file (foo.xml, say) and use:

xsd foo.xml
xsd foo.xsd /classes

Then look at foo.cs.