Deserializing XML to C# child class -

my xml :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <response id="41cc788a-bc22-4ce0-8e1c-83bf49bbffed"> <message>successfully processed request</message> <payload>alive</payload> </response> 

my classes :

[xmlroot("response")] [serializable] public abstract class esbresponsebase<t> {     [xmlattribute]     public string id { get; set; }      public string message { get; set; }      public t payload { get; set; } }  [xmlroot("response")] [serializable] public class esbresponseisalive : esbresponsebase<string> { } 

note if don't have these classes on child classes throws exception seems inheritance doesn't work these.

my serialization code :

xmlserializer serializer = new xmlserializer(typeof (esbresponseisalive)); var esbresponseisalive = (esbresponseisalive) serializer.deserialize(result); 

however when serialize object properties null.

i think more issue inheritance in classes used serializing. possible change base class actual concrete class , use generic, preferred have typed.

as turns out, xmlserializer case-sensitive. class looks following , works.

    [xmlattribute("id")]     public string id { get; set; }      [xmlelement("message")]     public string message { get; set; }      [xmlelement("payload")]     public t payload { get; set; }