WCF: Serializing and Deserializing generic collections

Question

I have a class Team that holds a generic list:

[DataContract(Name = \"TeamDTO\", IsReference = true)]
public class Team
{
    [DataMember]
    private IList&         


        

Answer 1

Taken straight from my blog. i hope it will be helpful:

I recently ran into an issue where we were consuming a WCF service and using a custom model binder in our ASP.net MVC app. Everything worked fine excerpt when we were serializing our ILists. IList gets serialized to arrays by default. I ended up converting our the arrays back to ILists using Reflection and calling the following method in the custom model binder. Here is how method looks like:

public object ConvertArraysToIList(object returnObj)    
{

if (returnObj != null)
{
    var allProps = returnObj.GetType().GetProperties().Where(p => p.PropertyType.IsPublic 
        && p.PropertyType.IsGenericType 
        && p.PropertyType.Name==typeof(IList<>).Name).ToList();

    foreach (var prop in allProps)
    {
        var value = prop.GetValue(returnObj,null);
        //set the current property to a new instance of the IList<>
        var arr=(System.Array)value; 
        Type listType=null;

        if(arr!=null)
        {
            listType= arr.GetType().GetElementType();
        }

        //create an empty list of the specific type
        var listInstance = typeof(List<>)
          .MakeGenericType(listType)
          .GetConstructor(Type.EmptyTypes)
          .Invoke(null);

        foreach (var currentValue in arr)
        {
            listInstance.GetType().GetMethod("Add").Invoke(listInstance, new[] { currentValue });
        }

        prop.SetValue(returnObj, listInstance, null);
    }
}

return returnObj;
}