Generic deserialization of an xml string

Question

I have a bunch of different DTO classes. They are being serialized into an XML string at one point and shot over to client-side of the web app. Now when the client shoots

Answer 1

if you have custom serialization/deserialization routine for each type, you could use something like this

public T Deserialize (string xml)
{
    if(typeof(T) == typeof(Person))
    {
        // deserialize and return Person instance
    }
    else if(typeof(T) == typeof(Address)
    {
        // deserialize and return Address instance
    }
    ...
    ...
    ...
}

And you can call

Person p = Deserialize(personXmlStringFromClient);