Read xml file into list with C#

      1.Create an xml file in below format

  xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

   <ArrayOfProduct>

     <Product>

       <Id>1</Id>

       <Name>product 1</Name>

       <Price>20000</Price>

     </Product>

     <Product>

       <Id>2</Id>

       <Name>product 2</Name>

       <Price>15000</Price>

     </Product>

   </ArrayOfProduct>

      2.Create a property class for the xml file

public class Product

       {

              public int Id { get; set; }

              public string Name { get; set; }

              public float Price { get; set; }

}

3. Include these namespaces

using System.Xml.Serialization;

using System.IO;     

4.       Read xml to list

List<Product> lstProduct;

//Datas/Product.xml is the relative path of xml file.

string folderPath = System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/Datas/Product.xml"); 

       XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(List<Product>));

       using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(folderPath, FileMode.Open,FileAccess.Read))

       {

     //Deserialize to Product list.

            lstProduct = (List<Product>)serializer.Deserialize(fs);

       }

//lstProduct contains the result.

5.   Read Xml as a generic method

 /// 

        /// Read the xml to list.

        /// 

        /// Class Name.

        /// Relative path of xml file."

        /// List of objects of specific type.

        public List ReadXml(string relativePath)

        {

            List lstResult = null;

            try

            {

                string folderPath = System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath(relativePath);

                XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(List));

                using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(folderPath,FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))

                {

                    lstResult = (List)serializer.Deserialize(fs);

                }

            }

            catch (Exception ex)

            {

            }

            return lstResult;

}


           6.     Call the generic method

       //Read Product.xml to list of products.

List<Product> lstProduct = ReadXml<Product>("~/Datas/Product.xml");