[DOTNET] Serializing collectionbase into xml

[Jeff Knutson]

Hi

Could someone please help me figure out how to do xml serialization of a
custom collection derived from CollectionBase?  I have gotten this to work
for ArrayList, but would much rather have my own custom collection.

e.g.

[XmlRoot( "Foo", Namespace="http://www.foo.com";, IsNullable = false) ]
class Foo
{
   private Foobars foobars = new Foobars();
   [XmlArrayItem( ElementName="Foobar", Type=typeof(Foobar) )]
   public Foobars Foobars
   {
      get{ return this.foobars; }
   }
}

class Foobars : CollectionBase
{}

[XmlRoot( "Foobar", Namespace="http://www.foo.com";, ElementName="Foobar",
IsNulllable = false) ]
class Foobar
{
   public int i;
   public short s;
}

When try to create an instance of the XmlSerializer, i am getting an
InvalidOperationException : There was an error reflecting Foo.  Here is
the code for that:

XmlSerializer s = new XmlSerializer( typeof( Foo ) );


Thanks in advance for the help. :)
Jeff

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