using System;

using System.Xml;

using System.Xml.Serialization;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.IO;

using System.Text;

public class Program

{

    public static void Main()

    {

        string xml = "<items><item><version>1.0</version><title>Example</title><changelog>http://example.com/changelog.txt</changelog><url>http://www.example.com/download/</url></item></items>";

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

        UpdateXML updateXml = null;

        using (var stream = new MemoryStream(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(xml)))

        using (var reader = new XmlTextReader(stream))

        {

            updateXml = (UpdateXML)serializer.Deserialize(reader);

        }

        Console.WriteLine("Deserialized {0} item(s)", updateXml.Items.Count);

    }

}

​

[XmlRootAttribute("items")]

public class UpdateXML

{

    public class Item

    {

        private string _versionString;

        private string _title;

        private string _changelog;

        private string _url;

​

        [XmlElement("version")]

        public string VersionString

        {

            get { return this._versionString; }

            set { this._versionString = value; }

        }

​

        public Version Version

        {

            get 

            {

                if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(this._versionString))

                    return null;

​

                return new Version(this._versionString); 

            }

        }

​

        [XmlElement("title")]

        public string Title

        {

            get { return this._title; }

            set { this._title = value; }

        }

​

        [XmlElement("changelog")]

        public string ChangeLog

        {

            get { return this._changelog; }

            set { this._changelog = value; }

        }

​

        [XmlElement("url")]

        public string URL

        {

            get { return this._url; }

            set { this._url = value; }

        }

    }

​

    private List<Item> _items;

​

    [XmlElement("item")]

    public List<Item> Items

    {

        get { return this._items; }

        set { this._items = value; }

    }

​

    public UpdateXML()

    {

​

    }

}