Your classes should look like this
[XmlRoot("StepList")]
public class StepList
{
[XmlElement("Step")]
public List<Step> Steps { get; set; }
}
public class Step
{
[XmlElement("Name")]
public string Name { get; set; }
[XmlElement("Desc")]
public string Desc { get; set; }
}
Here is my testcode.
string testData = @"<StepList>
<Step>
<Name>Name1</Name>
<Desc>Desc1</Desc>
</Step>
<Step>
<Name>Name2</Name>
<Desc>Desc2</Desc>
</Step>
</StepList>";
XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(StepList));
using (TextReader reader = new StringReader(testData))
{
StepList result = (StepList) serializer.Deserialize(reader);
}
If you want to read a text file you should load the file into a FileStream and deserialize this.
using (FileStream fileStream = new FileStream("<PathToYourFile>", FileMode.Open))
{
StepList result = (StepList) serializer.Deserialize(fileStream);
}