Is there a way to avoid the XmlSerializer to not initialize a null property when deserializing?

Question

I have this class:

public class MySerializableClass
{
    public List MyList { get; set; }
}

If MyList is null when MySeria

Answer 1

I had the same problem but adding the XmlArrayAttribute to the property with nothing set made it work for me

public class MySerializableClass
{
    [XmlArray]
    public List MyList { get; set; }
}