c# inheriting generic collection and serialization

Question

The setup:

class Item
{
    private int _value;

    public Item()
    {
        _value = 0;
    }

    public int Value { get { return _value; } set { _valu         


        

Answer 1

I am not sure if I am missing something, but do you want the resulting xml to be

   name val
   
      1
   
      2
   

If so, just apply the XmlRoot attribute to the itemcollection class and set the element name...

[XmlRoot(ElementName="ItemCollection")]
public class ItemCollection : Collection
{
   [XmlElement(ElementName="Name")]
   public string Name {get;set;}
}

This will instruct the serializer to output the required name for you collection container.