string serialization

[balkang]

Hi, I have a class that has a string attribute. I set this attribute to " " (a space) and serialize the instance to an xml file. When I deserialize that instance the value of that string attribute is null, not space.. How can I do that??

public class MyClass
{
private string str;

public string Str
{
	get{return str;}
	set{str = value;}
}

}
[STAThread]
static void Main(string[] args)
{
MyClass mycls = new MyClass();
mycls.Str = " "; //a space assigned

//Serialize it
TextWriter tw = new StreamWriter("str.xml"); 
XmlSerializer sr = new XmlSerializer(typeof(MyClass)); 
sr.Serialize(tw, mycls);
tw.Close();

//Deserialize
FileStream fs = new FileStream("str.xml", FileMode.Open); 
XmlSerializer sr2 = new XmlSerializer(typeof(MyClass)); 
MyClass mycls2 = (MyClass)sr2.Deserialize(fs);
fs.Close();
Console.WriteLine("\*\*\*" + mycls2.Str + "\*\*\*" );

}

output: ******

[aamironline]

Try this out!!! . . . FileStream fs = new FileStream("str.xml", FileMode.Open); XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader(fs); XmlSerializer sr2 = new XmlSerializer(typeof(MyClass)); MyClass mycls2 = (MyClass)sr2.Deserialize(reader); . . .

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