XmlSerialization snippet

re: XmlSerialization snippet

ploeh — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:54:54 GMT

Since you are alread calling your post a 'snippet', why not make it a real Visual Studio code snippet? It's fairly easy to do, as I've described on my own blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/ploeh/archive/2006/03/20/astypeCodeSnippet.aspx.

A few other things about your code snippet: StringWrite and StringReader both implement IDisposable, so you should wrap them in using statements.

Besides, I'd suggest calling the class 'StringXmlSerializer' instead :)

re: XmlSerialization snippet

jimmytr — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:19:59 GMT

using blocks - agree. However the local variables sw (and sr) are not really holding on to any unmanaged stuff in this case so I rely on the GC to remove my string and stringbuilder in this case.

Dispose of the reader:

protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)
{
   this._s = null;
   this._pos = 0;
   this._length = 0;
   base.Dispose(disposing);
}

Dispose of writer:
protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)
{
this._isOpen = false;
base.Dispose(disposing);
}

I know it's best practice...
If you intent to call the method often to (de-)serialize the same types caching the XmlSerializer objects will improve performance.

-again-snippet not meant as a guiding example on how to write code - merely somthing I use occasionally when playing with xsd.exe and Xml Serialization.

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