"DXRick" <DXRick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a class (UserAccount) that uses a List<T> to contain a collection of
> Account classes. The Account class uses a List<T> to contain a collection
> of
> the account items. If the Account class is a checking account its List<>
> collection contains instances of the CheckItem class, which represents a
> single register item in a checking account.
>
> I would like to be able to use the three types of serialization on them.
> Of
> course, the BinaryFormatter works fine. I tried to mark the List<> fields
> as
> [SoapIgnore, XmlIgnore] and before XML or SOAP seriliazation create an
> Array
> from it. However, the mere existence of the List<> class still causes XML
> and SOAP seriliazation to fail, claiming that generics are not supported.
>
> Is there a way I can use the generic List<> collection and still get XML
> and
> SOAP serialization to work?
>
> Thanks!
>