Xml Tutorial On Unity Gems

After a number of questions on Unity Answers concerning working with XML data we've published a new tutorial on Unity Gems covering how to easily use XML data to populate class hierarchies in Unity/C# in just a few lines of code.

The article is available here.

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Nice helper class, great article. You have some of the best unity programming tips on the web! I'm still using your delegate/reflection based state machine.

Thanks!

 

Do you have a recommendation for using system.xml to work with generic Dictionaries?

 

i usually end end up writing a property that uses Linq to project an array structure loaded from the XML into a generic dictionary on first use.

Very simple example:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2.  
3. private public Dictionary<string, Track> _tracks;
4. public Dictionary<string, Track>  trackLookup {
5.       get {
6.             return _tracks ?? _tracks = tracks.ToDictionary(t => t.name);
7.        }
8. }
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