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We have an XML file thus...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Settings>

<UseThisServer>
  mail.myserver.com
</UseThisServer>

<UseThisEmailAddress>
  john.doe@gmail.com
</UseThisEmailAddress>

<UseThisPassword>
  #ComplexPass~)(*)
</UseThisPassword>

</Settings>

First off - the namespace

using System.Xml.Serialization;

We want to get this information into a nice class or object so we can use it in our code. So here is our class

    public class Settings
    {
        public bool UseThisServer{ get; set; }
        public string UseThisEmailAddress { get; set; }
        public int UseThisPassword { get; set; }
    }

Now our actual code

    Settings MySettings = new Settings();
    XmlSerializer MySerial = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Settings));
    using (Stream MyReader = new FileStream("c:\\myfolder\\myfile.xml", FileMode.Open))
    {
           MySettings = (Settings)MySerial.Deserialize(MyReader);
    }
    MySettings.EmailServer = MySettings.EmailServer.Trim();
    MySettings.Username = MySettings.Username.Trim();
    MySettings.Password = MySettings.Password.Trim();

What's happening?
Create MySettings as an instance of settings ready to be populated
Create an XMLSerializer with a typeof of the class we're trying to populate
Using a streamreder we open the file that is the XML file
MySettings which is a Settings class has the filestream pushed through it using the format of Settings...

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