C#

larsp777 wrote:

Not sure what you mean but I declared a List of objects like:
 

List<book> BookList = new List<book>();

Error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'List' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

System.Collection.Generic.List<Book> bookList = 
    new System.Collections.Generic.List<Book>();

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using (Stream s2 = File.Create(path2))
          {
              xs2.Serialize(s2, BookList);
          }

public static String SerialiseToString<T>(T data, Type[] additionalTypes) {
  XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T), additionalTypes);
  using (StringWriter writer = new StringWriter()) {
    serializer.Serialize(writer, data);
    return writer.ToString();
  }
}

public static T DeserialiseFromString<T>(String xmlstr, Type[] additionalTypes) {
  using (StringReader reader = new StringReader(xmlstr)) {
    XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T), additionalTypes);
    T temp = (T)serializer.Deserialize(reader);
    return temp;
  }
}

List<Book> lst = new List<Book>();
Book one = new Book();

one.Title = "Swallows and Amazons";
one.Author = "Arthur Ransome";
lst.Add(one);

EBook two = new EBook();
two.Title = "War Horse";
two.Author = "Michael Morpurgo";
two.Platform = "Kindle";
lst.Add(two);
String xmlData = SerialiseToString<List<Book>>(lst, new Type[]{typeof(EBook)});

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<ArrayOfBook xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <Book>
    <Title>Swallows and Amazons</Title>
    <Author>Arthur Ransome</Author>
  </Book>
  <Book xsi:type="EBook">
    <Title>War Horse</Title>
    <Author>Michael Morpurgo</Author>
    <Platform>Kindle</Platform>
  </Book>
</ArrayOfBook>

List<Book> lst = DeserialiseFromString<List<Book>>(xmlData, new Type[]{typeof(EBook)});

MitchG92_24 wrote:

Any ideas?

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MitchG92_24 wrote:

but we need to keep it as close to how it would be acheived through keyboard
and mouse.

MitchG92_24 wrote:

Was just seeing if there was a possible way to do it through keypresses, if not
then i will look into other methods like the one you have offered

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