How do I deserialize XML into an object using a constructor that takes an XDocument?

Question

I have a class:

public class MyClass
{
   public MyClass(){}
}

I would like to be able to use an XMLSeralizer to Deserialize an XDocument d

Answer 1

I wanted to do the same thing and decided to do the following:

public class MyClass
{
   public MyClass(){
   }

   public MyClass(XDocument xd)
   {
      var t = typeof(MyClass);
      var o = (MyClass)new XmlSerializer(t).Deserialize(xd.CreateReader());

      foreach (var property in t.GetProperties())
          property.SetValue(this, property.GetValue(o));
   }
}