using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using System.Xml.Serialization;

using System.Xml;

using System.IO;

using System.Diagnostics;

using System.Collections.ObjectModel;

using System.Threading;

using System.ComponentModel;

using System.Xml.Linq;

using System.Reflection;

using System.Data;

using System.Xml.Schema;

using System.Net;

using System.Xml.XPath;

using System.Collections;

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    // https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42040325/deserialize-xml-in-xamarin

​

    [XmlRoot("ArrayOfSounds")]

    public class CSoundsRoot

    {

        public CSoundsRoot() { this.Sounds = new List<CSound>(); }

        [XmlElement("CSound")]

        public List<CSound> Sounds { get; set; }

    }

​

    public class CSound

    { 

        public string id { get; set; }

        public string name { get; set; }

        public string file { get; set; }

        public string fav { get; set; }

    }

​

​

    class TestClass

    {

        static string GetXml()

        {

            var xml = @"<?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""utf-8"" ?>

<ArrayOfSounds xmlns:xsi=""http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"" xmlns:xsd=""http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"">

  <CSound>

    <id>1</id>

    <name>SampleName1</name>

    <file>SampleFileName1</file>

    <fav>true</fav>

  </CSound>

  <CSound>

    <id>2</id>

    <name>SampleName2</name>

    <file>SampleFileName2</file>

    <fav>false</fav>

  </CSound>

  <CSound>

    <id>3</id>

    <name>SampleName3</name>

    <file>SampleFileName3</file>

    <fav>true</fav>

  </CSound>

  <CSound>

    <id>4</id>

    <name>SampleName4</name>

    <file>SampleFileName4</file>

    <fav>false</fav>

  </CSound>

  <CSound>

    <id>5</id>

    <name>SampleName5</name>

    <file>SampleFileName5</file>

    <fav>true</fav>

  </CSound>

</ArrayOfSounds>";

            return xml;

        }

        internal static void Test()

        {

            var sounds = new List<CSound> { new CSound { id = "one" } };

            var xml1 = sounds.GetXml(null, true);

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            Console.WriteLine("\nResults of serializing an object of type {0}", sounds.GetType());

            Console.WriteLine(xml1);

            var root = new CSoundsRoot { Sounds = sounds };

            var xml2 = root.GetXml(null, true);

            Console.WriteLine("\nResults of serializing an object of type {0}", root.GetType());

            Console.WriteLine(xml2);

            var fullXml = GetXml();

            var fullRoot = fullXml.LoadFromXml<CSoundsRoot>();

            var fullXml2 = fullRoot.GetXml(null, true);

            Console.WriteLine("\nResult of deserializing and re-serializing the XML from question 42040325 into an object of type {0}", fullRoot.GetType());

            Console.WriteLine(fullXml2);

        }

    }                   

​

    public class Program

    {

        public static void Main()

        {

            TestClass.Test();

        }

    }

​

    public static class XmlSerializationHelper

    {

        public static T LoadFromXml<T>(this string xmlString)

        {

            using (StringReader reader = new StringReader(xmlString))

            {

                return (T)new XmlSerializer(typeof(T)).Deserialize(reader);

            }

        }

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        public static string GetXml<T>(this T obj, XmlSerializer serializer = null, bool omitStandardNamespaces = false)

        {

            XmlSerializerNamespaces ns = null;

            if (omitStandardNamespaces)

            {

                ns = new XmlSerializerNamespaces();

                ns.Add("", ""); // Disable the xmlns:xsi and xmlns:xsd lines.

            }           

            using (var textWriter = new StringWriter())

            {

                var settings = new XmlWriterSettings() { Indent = true }; // For cosmetic purposes.

                using (var xmlWriter = XmlWriter.Create(textWriter, settings))

                    (serializer ?? new XmlSerializer(obj.GetType())).Serialize(xmlWriter, obj, ns);

                return textWriter.ToString();

            }

        }

    }

​

    public class AssertionFailedException : System.Exception

    {

        public AssertionFailedException() : base() { }

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        public AssertionFailedException(string s) : base(s) { }

    }

​

    public static class Assert

    {

        public static void IsTrue(bool value)

        {

            if (value == false)

                throw new AssertionFailedException("failed");

        }

    }

​