Deserialize XML string to Object in C#

In previous article, I mentioned Convert EPOC (Unix) time stamp to Datetime and Vice-Versa in C# but in this article, I have mentioned how to Deserialize XML string to Object in C# or you can say we will convert XML string to C# object, using Console application example.

Step 1: Create a new console application project in Visual Studio, by opening VS 2022/2019, click on "Create new project", then select "Console application" -> Name your project and then select ".NET Core" Version, I am using .NET 5.

Step 2: Now, we will create our sample class for which we will deserialize XML string, so here is the C# class

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Xml.Serialization;

namespace XMlToCsharpObject
{
    [XmlRoot("StudentList")]
    public class StudentList
    {
        [XmlElement("Student")]
        public List<Student> Students { get; set; }
    }
    public class Student
    {
        public string Name { get; set; }
        public string Class { get; set; }
    }
}

In the above C# class, we created StudentList and mentioned Root Element as StudentList, while XML Element would be Student.

Step 3: Considering above Class, we can have XML like below, which we want to deserialize 

                    <StudentList>
                        <Student>
                            <Name>Vikas</Name>
                            <Class>Class X</Class>
                        </Student>
                        <Student>
                            <Name>Vikram</Name>
                            <Class>Class X</Class>
                        </Student>
                    </StudentList>

so, the complete console application example would be as below

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml.Serialization;

namespace XMlToCsharpObject
{
    internal class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string sampleXML = @"<StudentList>
                        <Student>
                            <Name>Vikas</Name>
                            <Class>Class X</Class>
                        </Student>
                        <Student>
                            <Name>Vikram</Name>
                            <Class>Class X</Class>
                        </Student>
                    </StudentList>";

            XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(StudentList));
            using (TextReader reader = new StringReader(sampleXML))
            {
                var result = (StudentList)serializer.Deserialize(reader);
                Console.WriteLine("First Student name :" + result.Students[0].Name);
            }
        }
    }
}

Once, we will build the above code and run you will get the output as the first student name

First Student name :Vikas

I hope it helps.

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