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

You can also try to implelemnt your own serialization using IXmlSerializable interface

    public class ItemCollection : Collection,IXmlSerializable
    {
        private string _name;

        public ItemCollection()
        {
            _name = string.Empty;
        }

        public string Name
        {
            get { return _name; }
            set { _name = value; }
        }

 #region IXmlSerializable Members

         public System.Xml.Schema.XmlSchema GetSchema()
         {
              return null;
         }

         public void ReadXml(System.Xml.XmlReader reader)
         {

         }

         public void WriteXml(System.Xml.XmlWriter writer)
         {
              writer.WriteElementString("name", _name);
              List coll = new List(this.Items);
              XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(coll.GetType());
              serializer.Serialize(writer, coll);

         }

#endregion
   }

Above code will generate the serialized xml as

  
  
    
      1
    
    
      2