Save List<T> to XML file
So we need to save our List<T> to XML file for something. For example, for work with it in Access. C# is great for this with using System.Xml.Serialization. There are only 4 strings of code to save an XML-file. Of course I don’t describe how to get List<T> items
Our class is:
//Our class is:
public class logAttr {
public string Id {get; set; }
public string IsFailed { get; set; }
public string User { get; set; }
public string Pages { get; set; }
public string Date { get; set; }
}
Writing to XML-file takes only 4 strings of code:
// //Write List<T> to XML file string output = "c:\\output.xml"; List<logAttr> noDupes = logsElements.Distinct().ToList(); XmlSerializer serialiser = new XmlSerializer(typeof(List<logAttr>)); TextWriter FileStream = new StreamWriter(output); serialiser.Serialize(FileStream, noDupes); FileStream.Close();
The result is something like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ArrayOfLogAttr xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<logAttr>
<Id>{B4C971BB-BA85-404F-AA64-3434FD3BDEB3}</Id>
<IsFailed>false</IsFailed>
<User>User1</User>
<Pages>2</Pages>
<Date>22.03.2011 14:13:02.214000</Date>
</logAttr>
<logAttr>
<Id>{29C77821-3736-4370-811E-0A71F5F033C6}</Id>
<IsFailed>false</IsFailed>
<User>User2</User>
<Pages>4</Pages>
<Date>09.04.2011 14:21:15.102000</Date>
</logAttr>
</ArrayOfLogAttr>

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