Deserialize to self

Question

Ok, I\'m probably just having an epic fail here, but my mind wants to say this should work.

Assume DataProtect.DecryptData takes an encrypted string as input and a d

Answer 1

You can not assign anything to "this". Change ArriveDetails to a static that return the deserialised object.

class ArrivedDetails
{
    static ArrivedDetails Create(string encrypted)
    { return DataProtect.deserializeXML(...) }
}