Passing Parameters as Xml to a Stored Procedure

Question

I\'ve got a requirement to pass parameters as Xml to my stored procedures.

I have a WCF service in the middle tier that makes calls to my data layer which in turn fo

Answer 1

You could just use an object Serialization class like this

 public class Serialization
    {
        /// 

        /// Serializes the object.
        /// 
        /// My object.
        /// 
        public static XmlDocument SerializeObject(Object myObject)
        {
            XmlDocument XmlObject = new XmlDocument();
            String XmlizedString = string.Empty;

            try
            {                
                MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
                XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(myObject.GetType());
                XmlTextWriter xmlTextWriter = new XmlTextWriter(memoryStream, Encoding.UTF8);
                xs.Serialize(xmlTextWriter, myObject);
                memoryStream = (MemoryStream)xmlTextWriter.BaseStream;
                XmlizedString = UTF8ByteArrayToString(memoryStream.ToArray());                
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                System.Console.WriteLine(e);
            }
            XmlObject.LoadXml(XmlizedString);
            return XmlObject;            
        }

        /// 

        /// Deserializes the object.
        /// 
        /// 
        /// The p xmlized string.
        /// 
        public static T DeserializeObject(String XmlizedString)
        {
            XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
            MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream(StringToUTF8ByteArray(XmlizedString));
            //XmlTextWriter xmlTextWriter = new XmlTextWriter(memoryStream, Encoding.UTF8);
            Object myObject = xs.Deserialize(memoryStream);
            return (T)myObject;
        } 

        /// 

        /// To convert a Byte Array of Unicode values (UTF-8 encoded) to a complete String.
        /// 
        /// Unicode Byte Array to be converted to String
        /// String converted from Unicode Byte Array
        private static String UTF8ByteArrayToString(Byte[] characters)
        {
            UTF8Encoding encoding = new UTF8Encoding();
            String constructedString = encoding.GetString(characters);
            return (constructedString);
        }



        /// 

        /// Converts the String to UTF8 Byte array and is used in De serialization
        /// 
        /// 
        /// 
        private static Byte[] StringToUTF8ByteArray(String pXmlString)
        {
            UTF8Encoding encoding = new UTF8Encoding();
            Byte[] byteArray = encoding.GetBytes(pXmlString);
            return byteArray;
        } 
    }

then you don't have to build the XML by hand, plus you can use this with any item to transform it using XSLT