Deserializing XML Files

[Brent Burgess]

I am trying to deserialize an XML file, but I only get the first entry.

Here is the data from my xml file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Scale xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<Name>1:1</Name>
<Numerator>1</Numerator>
<Denominator>1</Denominator>
<Units>mm</Units>

<Name>1:2</Name>
<Numerator>1</Numerator>
<Denominator>2</Denominator>
<Units>mm</Units>

<Name>1:5</Name>
<Numerator>1</Numerator>
<Denominator>5</Denominator>
<Units>mm</Units>

<Name>1:10</Name>
<Numerator>1</Numerator>
<Denominator>10</Denominator>
<Units>mm</Units>
</Scale>

This is the code I have used.

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml.Serialization;

public class Test
    {
    public static void Main()
        {
   
        StreamReader objStreamReader = new StreamReader(@"C:\Users\burgessb2\desktop\Scales.xml");
        Scale s2 = new Scale();
        XmlSerializer x = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Scale));
        s2 = (Scale)x.Deserialize(objStreamReader);
        objStreamReader.Close();

        //Display property values of the new product object.
        Console.WriteLine(string.Format("Name: {0}{1}\tNumerator: {2}\tDenominator: {3}",s2.Name, s2.Units,s2.Numerator,s2.Denominator));
        Console.ReadLine();
        }

    public static bool SerializeFile<T>(object xmlType, string filename)
        {
        bool result;
        try
            {
            XmlSerializer xmlSerializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
            using (Stream stream = File.Open(filename, FileMode.Create))
                {
                xmlSerializer.Deserialize(stream);
                result = true;
                }
            }
        catch
            {
            result = false;
            }
        return result;
        }
    }

public class Scale
{
	private string _Name;
	private double _Numerator;
    private double _Denominator;
    private string _Units;
	
	public string Name
        {
        get { return _Name; }
        set { _Name = value; }
        }

	public double Numerator
        {
		get { return _Numerator; }
		set { _Numerator = value; }
        }

	[XmlElementAttribute(ElementName = "Denominator")]
	public double Denominator
        {
		get { return _Denominator; }
		set { _Denominator = value; }
        }

    public string Units
        {
        get { return _Units; }
        set { _Units = value; }
        }
}

The only result I get is
Name: 1:1mm Numerator: 1 Denominator: 1

Can anyone give me a clue as to where I am doing wrong?

[Blagojce]

You're using single instance of object, not a collection.
When you're displaying results you need to use for/foreach loop if you want to display all objects in collection.
In function SerializeFile<T> you're using deserialize(stream) stream instead of serialize(stream).