How to XML deserialize an object of Unknown Type?

Question

I want to save my object to hard disk (like cache) with XmlSerializer. In this case, I don\'t have any problem.

However, when I want to deserialize thi

Answer 1

you can use SerializationHelper.DeSerializeNow as described in my post: http://borismod.blogspot.com/2008/07/nunit-serialization-test.html

internal class SerializationHelper
{
  private static readonly string DefaultFilePath = "test.dat";

  internal static void SerializeNow(object c)
  {
    SerializeNow(c, DefaultFilePath);
  }

  internal static void SerializeNow(object c, string filepath)
  {
   FileInfo f = new FileInfo(filepath);
   using (Stream s = f.Open(FileMode.Create))
   {
      BinaryFormatter b = new BinaryFormatter();
    b.Serialize(s, c);
   }
  }

  internal static object DeSerializeNow()
  {
    return DeSerializeNow(DefaultFilePath);
  }

  internal static object DeSerializeNow(string filepath)
  {
    FileInfo f = new FileInfo(filepath);
    using (Stream s = f.Open(FileMode.Open))
    {
      BinaryFormatter b = new BinaryFormatter();
      return b.Deserialize(s);
    }
  }
}