Reading in a type from an XML file

[Earl]

How do I read in a type from XML? I can successfully write the value out to
the file as a type, but I cannot read it back in. Here is partial code for
the save portion:

Private NT As Type = GetType(NetworkType)
Private m_PubNetworkType As NetworkType

............
Dim dcPubNetworkType As DataColumn = dt.Columns.Add("PublisherNetworkType",
NT)
drNew("PublisherNetworkType") = m_PubNetworkType

Here is partial code for the retrieval portion. This would seem to cast the
input field to a type, but when I pull the file in, I get a NullReference
exception (despite the fact that the field IS populated in the XML file).

m_PubNetworkType =
CType(dsIn.Tables("ReplicationSettings").Rows(0)("PublisherNetworkType"),
NetworkType)

Here is the written schema:
<xs:element name="PublisherNetworkType"
msdataataType="System.Data.SqlServerCe.NetworkType" type="xs:string"
minOccurs="0" />

Here is the written XML:
<PublisherNetworkType>DefaultNetwork</PublisherNetworkType>

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Earl,

How do I read in a type from XML? I can successfully write the value out
to the file as a type, but I cannot read it back in. Here is partial code
for the save portion:

You mean this one
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...lrfsystemdatadatacolumnclassdatatypetopic.asp

Tell next time that it is a XML dataset file. There are more types for XML
files by instance documents.

I hope this helps,

Cor

 

[Earl]

That is the general idea, unfortunately, NetworkType and SecurityType are
not System types and apparently cannot be assigned in that fashion. Thus my
question.

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Earl,

That is the general idea, unfortunately, NetworkType and SecurityType are
not System types and apparently cannot be assigned in that fashion. Thus
my question.

In my ideas are it in your sample just column (item) names, therefore I
don't understand why you cannot get the type with the sample I gave you. It
can of course be nothing when there is no schema where it is set. (The last
not tested).

Cor

 

[Earl]

The "sample you gave me" is the standard MSDN sample, and only allows
standard System types and no others.