I will be working all weekend long :( My client went with a full page advertisement in today's paper promoting his upcoming Services. He'll be taking ticket orders by hand until I can get the bugs worked out of this thing.
I might have noticed the answer to the problem myself, but the sun coming up in the east was glaring up my laptop display! So I crashed for a few hours instead :) Now it's back to the grindstone.
>I'm glad that worked. Hope you're not working all weekend long. :)
>
>>She shoots, she scores!! Thanks a million, Cathi.
>>
>>>Hi Keith,
>>>
>>>You need to set the memory stream position back to 0 before you attempt to deserialize. The problem is that the position is still sitting at the end.
>>>
>>>>I'm getting an error - "The root element is missing." when attempting to deserialize from a memory stream into an object. What is driving me nuts is that I tested by saving the stream to a file right before serializing the object, and then saving the stream to a different file right before deserializing, and the files look structurally identical to me.
>>>>
>>>>The serialized file:
>>>>
>>>> <?xml version="1.0" ?>
>>>>- <ArrayOfTicketPurchaseItem xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
>>>> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
>>>>- <TicketPurchaseItem>
>>>>- <EventItem>
>>>> <Key>7</Key>
>>>> <Value>High Holy Days (all services)</Value>
>>>> </EventItem>
>>>>- <SectionItem>
>>>> <Key>1</Key>
>>>> <Value>VIP</Value>
>>>> </SectionItem>
>>>> <AdultAmount>250</AdultAmount>
>>>> <ChildAmount>0</ChildAmount>
>>>> <AdultQuantity>2</AdultQuantity>
>>>> <ChildQuantity>1</ChildQuantity>
>>>> </TicketPurchaseItem>
>>>> </ArrayOfTicketPurchaseItem>
>>>>
>>>>And the file that I saved when trying to deserialize:
>>>>
>>>> <?xml version="1.0" ?>
>>>>- <ArrayOfTicketPurchaseItem xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
>>>> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
>>>>- <TicketPurchaseItem>
>>>>- <EventItem>
>>>> <Key>3</Key>
>>>> <Value>Rosh Hashanah</Value>
>>>> </EventItem>
>>>>- <SectionItem>
>>>> <Key>2</Key>
>>>> <Value>Reserved</Value>
>>>> </SectionItem>
>>>> <AdultAmount>75</AdultAmount>
>>>> <ChildAmount>0</ChildAmount>
>>>> <AdultQuantity>5</AdultQuantity>
>>>> <ChildQuantity>2</ChildQuantity>
>>>> </TicketPurchaseItem>
>>>>- <TicketPurchaseItem>
>>>>- <EventItem>
>>>> <Key>7</Key>
>>>> <Value>High Holy Days (all services)</Value>
>>>> </EventItem>
>>>>- <SectionItem>
>>>> <Key>2</Key>
>>>> <Value>Reserved</Value>
>>>> </SectionItem>
>>>> <AdultAmount>175</AdultAmount>
>>>> <ChildAmount>0</ChildAmount>
>>>> <AdultQuantity>2</AdultQuantity>
>>>> <ChildQuantity>2</ChildQuantity>
>>>> </TicketPurchaseItem>
>>>>- <TicketPurchaseItem>
>>>>- <EventItem>
>>>> <Key>3</Key>
>>>> <Value>Rosh Hashanah</Value>
>>>> </EventItem>
>>>>- <SectionItem>
>>>> <Key>0</Key>
>>>> <Value>Inner Circle</Value>
>>>> </SectionItem>
>>>> <AdultAmount>500</AdultAmount>
>>>> <ChildAmount>0</ChildAmount>
>>>> <AdultQuantity>1</AdultQuantity>
>>>> <ChildQuantity>2</ChildQuantity>
>>>> </TicketPurchaseItem>
>>>>- <TicketPurchaseItem>
>>>>- <EventItem>
>>>> <Key>7</Key>
>>>> <Value>High Holy Days (all services)</Value>
>>>> </EventItem>
>>>>- <SectionItem>
>>>> <Key>0</Key>
>>>> <Value>Inner Circle</Value>
>>>> </SectionItem>
>>>> <AdultAmount>500</AdultAmount>
>>>> <ChildAmount>0</ChildAmount>
>>>> <AdultQuantity>5</AdultQuantity>
>>>> <ChildQuantity>2</ChildQuantity>
>>>> </TicketPurchaseItem>
>>>> </ArrayOfTicketPurchaseItem>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Sorry about the lame IE formatting, but the source of the deserialization data is a Text field in a table that does not have any formatting at all.
>>>>
>>>>Has anyone had this missing root element problem already and can give me some pointers on how to avoid it?
