Re: XML Deserialization Newbie Question

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Try adding a call to writer.Flush() just before you reset the stream
position to 0

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"Bill Henning" <please @ nospamforactiprosoftware.com> wrote in message
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> Hi there.... I'm trying to figure out how to do simple XML serialization
> however whenever I try to deserialize from XML, I get a System Error
> ("System.Xml.XmlException: The root element is missing.").
>
> Could someone try running this sample code to tell me what I'm doing
> wrong? I'm just serializing an int and trying to call CanDeserialize on it
> and that's where the exception occurs. Thanks so much in advance!
>
>
> // ----------------------------------------------------
> string xml;
> int c = 100;
> {
> System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer serializer = new
> System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer(c.GetType());
> System.IO.MemoryStream stream = new System.IO.MemoryStream();
> System.Xml.XmlTextWriter writer = new System.Xml.XmlTextWriter(stream,
> null);
> serializer.Serialize(writer, c);
> stream.Position = 0;
> xml = new System.IO.StreamReader(stream).ReadToEnd();
> stream.Close();
> }
> Console.WriteLine(xml);
> {
> System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer serializer = new
> System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer(c.GetType());
> System.IO.MemoryStream stream = new System.IO.MemoryStream();
> System.Xml.XmlTextWriter writer = new System.Xml.XmlTextWriter(stream,
> null);
> writer.WriteRaw(xml);
> stream.Position = 0;
> System.Xml.XmlTextReader reader = new System.Xml.XmlTextReader(stream);
> Console.WriteLine(serializer.CanDeserialize(reader));
> }
> return;
> // ----------------------------------------------------
>
>


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