How to deserialize xml to object

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lt StepList gt     lt Step gt       lt Name gt Name1 lt  Name gt       lt Desc gt Desc1 lt  Desc gt     lt  Step gt     lt Step gt       lt Name gt Name2 lt  Name gt       lt Desc gt Desc2 lt  Desc gt     lt  Step gt   lt  StepList gt    I have this XML  How should i model the Class so i will be able to deserialize it using XmlSerializer object

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The comments above are correct  You re missing the decorators  If you want a generic deserializer you can use this  public static T DeserializeXMLFileToObject lt T gt  string XmlFilename        T returnObject   default T       if  string IsNullOrEmpty XmlFilename   return default T        try               StreamReader xmlStream   new StreamReader XmlFilename           XmlSerializer serializer   new XmlSerializer typeof T            returnObject    T serializer Deserialize xmlStream             catch  Exception ex                ExceptionLogger WriteExceptionToConsole ex  DateTime Now             return returnObject     Then you d call it like this  MyObjType MyObj   DeserializeXMLFileToObject lt MyObjType gt  FilePath

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Your classes should look like this   XmlRoot  StepList    public class StepList        XmlElement  Step        public List lt Step gt  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      lt StepList gt                           lt Step gt                               lt Name gt Name1 lt  Name gt                               lt Desc gt Desc1 lt  Desc gt                           lt  Step gt                           lt Step gt                               lt Name gt Name2 lt  Name gt                               lt Desc gt Desc2 lt  Desc gt                           lt  Step gt                       lt  StepList gt     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   lt PathToYourFile gt    FileMode Open          StepList result    StepList  serializer Deserialize fileStream

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