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I am trying to deserialize a CodeSnippets file and the Root node contains an xmlns namespace and I'm getting the following error;

{"<CodeSnippets xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005/CodeSnippet'> was not expected."}

Snippets file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<CodeSnippets  xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005/CodeSnippet">
  <CodeSnippet Format="1.0.0">

This is the last thing I've tried but I've tried quite a few things and nothing worked. I even converted the .snippet file to an .xsd then tried to use xsd.exe to transform back to .cs and it wouldn't do it because of the xmlns attribute. WTF???

[Serializable]
[XmlRootAttribute("CodeSnippets", Namespace="xmlns", IsNullable = false)]
public class SnippetItem
{
    public SnippetItem()
    {
        Header = new SnippetHeader();
    }

This is just a small portion of the class, I didn't add the whole thing because the attribute is the problem.

And this is the code I'm using to deserialize;

internal static SnippetItem DeserializeItem(string file)
{
    SnippetItem item = null;

    try
    {
        XmlSerializer deserializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(SnippetItem));
        TextReader reader = new StreamReader(file);
        item = deserializer.Deserialize(reader) as SnippetItem;
        reader.Close();
    }
    catch { }

    return item;
}