Csharp/C Sharp/Web Services/SOAP

illustrates SOAP serialization

/*
Mastering Visual C# .NET
by Jason Price, Mike Gunderloy
Publisher: Sybex;
ISBN: 0782129110
*/
 /*
  Example15_19.cs illustrates SOAP serialization
*/
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;
using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap;
// the Customer class gives us something to serialize
[Serializable]
class Customer
{
  // some private data members
  private int CustomerNumber;
  private string CustomerName;
  private string CustomerCountry;
  // the WriteCustomer method formats info to the screen
  public void WriteCustomer()
  {
    Console.WriteLine("Customer Number: " + this.CustomerNumber);
    Console.WriteLine("Customer Name: " + this.CustomerName);
    Console.WriteLine("Customer Country: " + this.CustomerCountry);
  }
  // the constructor accepts all the info to create a customer
  public Customer(
    int newCustomerNumber, 
    string newCustomerName, 
    string newCustomerCountry)
  {
    this.CustomerNumber = newCustomerNumber;
    this.CustomerName = newCustomerName;
    this.CustomerCountry = newCustomerCountry;
  }
}
public class Example15_20 
{
  public static void Main() 
  {
    // create a new customer and dump to screen
    Customer MyCustomer = new Customer(1, "X Corporation", "France");
    MyCustomer.WriteCustomer();
    // Create a FileStream to hold the serialized customer
    FileStream serializeStream = new FileStream("c:\\MyCustomer.xml", 
      FileMode.Create);
    // use SOAP formatting
    SoapFormatter sf = new SoapFormatter();
    // serialize the object
    sf.Serialize(serializeStream, MyCustomer);
    serializeStream.Flush();
    serializeStream.Close();
    // retrieve the serialized version to a second object and dump that
    FileStream retrieveStream = new FileStream("c:\\MyCustomer.xml",
      FileMode.Open);
    Customer NewCustomer = (Customer) sf.Deserialize(retrieveStream);
    NewCustomer.WriteCustomer();
  }
}