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i have list of key/value pairs i'd store in , retrieve xml file. task similar described here. trying follow advice in marked answer (using keyvaluepair , xmlserializer) don't working.

what have far "settings" class ...

public class settings {     public int simplevalue;     public list<keyvaluepair<string, int>> list; } 

... instance of class ...

settings asettings = new settings();  asettings.simplevalue = 2;  asettings.list = new list<keyvaluepair<string, int>>(); asettings.list.add(new keyvaluepair<string, int>("m1", 1)); asettings.list.add(new keyvaluepair<string, int>("m2", 2)); 

... , following code write instance xml file:

xmlserializer serializer = new xmlserializer(typeof(settings)); textwriter writer = new streamwriter("c:\\testfile.xml"); serializer.serialize(writer, asettings); writer.close(); 

the resulting file is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <settings xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/xmlschema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/xmlschema">   <simplevalue>2</simplevalue>   <list>     <keyvaluepairofstringint32 />     <keyvaluepairofstringint32 />   </list> </settings> 

so neither key nor value of pairs in list stored though number of elements correct. doing wrong. questions are:

• how can store key/value pairs of list in file?
• how can change default generated name "keyvaluepairofstringint32" of elements in list other name "listelement" i'd have?

keyvaluepair not serializable, because has read-only properties. here more information(thanks thomas levesque). changing generated name use [xmltype] attribute.

define own this:

[serializable] [xmltype(typename="whatevernameyoulike")] public struct keyvaluepair<k, v> {   public k key    { get; set; }    public v value    { get; set; } }