Converting XML document into object

Try this

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Serialization;
using System.IO;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        const string FILENAME = @"c:\temp\test.xml";
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Configuration config = new Configuration() {
                configSections = new ConfigSections() {
                    section = new List<Section>() {
                       new Section() { name = "StationsSection", type="AcmeTV_EcFtpClient.StationConfigurationSection, AcmeTV_EcFtpClient"}
                    }
                },
                stationsSection = new StationsSection() {
                    station = new List<Station>() {
                        new Station() { 
                            add = new StationAdd() {
                               comment ="My comment goes here",
                               destinationFolderPath = "C:\\TestInstallation",
                               ftpHostname = "ftp://upload.servername.com/",
                               ftpFolderPath = "myFolderPath/",
                               ftpUsername = "myUserName",
                               ftpPassword = "myFtpPassword",
                               ftpTimeoutInSeconds = 20
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                startup = new Startup() {
                    supportedRuntime = new SupportedRuntime() {
                        version = "v2.0.50727"
                    }
                },
                appSettings = new AppSettings() {
                    appSettingAdd = new List<AppSettingAdd>() {
                        new AppSettingAdd() { key= "NameOfService", value="AcmeECClient"},
                        new AppSettingAdd() { key="PollingFrequencyInSeconds", value="60"}
                    }
                }
            };

            XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Configuration));

            StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(FILENAME);
            serializer.Serialize(writer, config);
            writer.Flush();
            writer.Close();
            writer.Dispose();


            XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Configuration));
            XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader(FILENAME);
            Configuration  newConfig = (Configuration)xs.Deserialize(reader);

        }
    }

    [XmlRoot("configuration")]
    public class Configuration
    {
        [XmlElement("configSections")]
        public ConfigSections configSections { get; set; }

        [XmlElement("StationsSection")]
        public StationsSection stationsSection { get; set; }

        [XmlElement("startup")]
        public Startup startup { get; set; }

        [XmlElement("appSettings")]
        public AppSettings appSettings { get; set; }
    }

    [XmlRoot("configSections")]
    public class ConfigSections
    {
        [XmlElement("section")]
        public List<Section> section { get; set; }
    }

    [XmlRoot("section")]
    public class Section
    {
        [XmlAttribute("name")]
        public string name { get; set;}
        [XmlAttribute("type")]
        public string type { get; set; } 
    }

    [XmlRoot("StationsSection")]
    public class StationsSection
    {

        [XmlElement("Stations")]
        public List<Station> station  { get; set; }
    }

    [XmlRoot("Stations")]
    public class Station
    {
        [XmlElement("add")]
        public StationAdd add { get; set; }

    }
    [XmlRoot("add")]
    public class StationAdd
    {
        [XmlAttribute("Comment")]
        public string comment { get; set; }
        [XmlAttribute("DestinationFolderPath")]
        public string destinationFolderPath { get; set; }
        [XmlAttribute("FtpHostname")]
        public string ftpHostname { get; set; }
        [XmlAttribute("FtpFolderPath")]
        public string ftpFolderPath { get; set; }
        [XmlAttribute("FtpUsername")]
        public string ftpUsername { get; set; }
        [XmlAttribute("FtpPassword")]
        public string ftpPassword { get; set; }
        [XmlAttribute("FtpTimeoutInSeconds")]
        public int ftpTimeoutInSeconds { get; set; }
    }

    [XmlRoot("startup")]
    public class Startup
    {
        [XmlElement("supportedRuntime")]
        public SupportedRuntime supportedRuntime { get; set; }
    }

    [XmlRoot("supportedRuntime")]
    public class SupportedRuntime
    {
        [XmlAttribute("version")]
        public string version { get; set; }
    }

    [XmlRoot("appSettings")]
    public class AppSettings
    {
        [XmlElement("add")]
        public List<AppSettingAdd> appSettingAdd { get; set;}
    }

    [XmlRoot("add")]
    public class AppSettingAdd
    {
        [XmlAttribute("key")]
        public string key { get; set; }

        [XmlAttribute("value")]
        public string value { get; set; }
    }


}
​

Can't quite nail this down in limited time. But perhaps you can work on it; it seems the node was called Stations so it's looking for a Stations class instead of StationConfiguration. But I'm not getting the properties as XML attributes parts yet.

void Main()
{
    const string hardCodedConfigFilePath = @"\\ai-vmdc1\RedirectedFolders\jlambert\Documents\MyApp.exe.config";
    string xmlDocumentText = File.ReadAllText(hardCodedConfigFilePath);
    XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
    //doc.Schemas.Add(, xsdPath
    //Console.WriteLine(xmlDocumentText);
    doc.LoadXml(xmlDocumentText);
    XmlNodeReader reader = new XmlNodeReader(doc.DocumentElement["StationsSection"]);
    string firstStationConfiguration = doc.DocumentElement["StationsSection"].ChildNodes[0].OuterXml;//.InnerXml; //here's the chunk that contains my data
    XmlSerializer ser = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Stations));
    //  Console.WriteLine(xmlDocumentText);
    //object obj = ser.Deserialize(reader);
    Console.WriteLine(firstStationConfiguration);
    using (StringReader stringReader = new StringReader(firstStationConfiguration))
    {
        Stations sc = (Stations)ser.Deserialize(stringReader);
        Console.WriteLine(sc.Comment);
        Console.WriteLine(sc.FtpUsername);
        Console.WriteLine(sc.FtpPassword);
        Console.WriteLine(sc.DestinationFolderPath);
    }
}

// Define other methods and classes here
[Serializable]
public class Stations
{
    [XmlAttribute("Comment")]
    public string Comment { get; set;}
    [XmlAttribute]
    public string FtpUsername { get; set;}
    [XmlAttribute]
    public string FtpPassword { get; set;}
    [XmlAttribute]
    public string DestinationFolderPath { get; set;}
}