How can I deserialize an object from an XML string?

I'm trying to deserialize an object back from it's XML string using xmlSerializer.Deserialize() but the returned object is always blank开发者_Go百科 (not null, but all the properties are null or 0). I can't work out what I'm doing wrong and yet I get no errors or exceptions.

string xml = "***my xml is here***";

XmlSerializer ser = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Order));
StringReader stringReader = new StringReader(xml);
XmlTextReader xmlReader = new XmlTextReader(stringReader);
Order order = (Order)ser.Deserialize(xmlReader);
xmlReader.Close();
stringReader.Close();

The source of Order.cs was generated from the XSD using the the xsd.exe tool.

Source of order.cs: http://www.nickgilbert.com/etc/1/Order.txt

Sample order XML: http://www.nickgilbert.com/etc/1/example-order.xml

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Your sample XML file (example-order.xml) uses the namespace http://tempuri.org/OrderSchema.xsd but the code generated by XSD (order.cs) defines all of the elements in the namespace http://x-rm.com/wrightcottrell/cataloguecd/.

You'll need these namespaces to match up in order for serialization to work properly.

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The fact that you get an object back at all tells me that the object is public and has a public parameterless constructor (otherwise an exception would have been thrown). So, it is most-likely failing one of:

• deserialization members must be either public properties with public get and public set, or public (non-readonly) fields
• by default the member-names must be an exact match for xml element names, in the same xml-namespace as the parent element; finer control can be obtained via attributes (changing the name, using attributes, namespaces, etc)