Question

I am trying to learn to serialize XML files and I have hit a snag on accessing a variable that is inside a Class that is inside a List. Here is the declaration code:

public class Library{
    public string name;
    public List<Book> books;
}

public class Book{
    public string name;
}

Here is the code where I populate the List that I’m going to serialize, but whenever I run this code all of the library.books.name always end up being equal to the last thing I saved book as, in this case “Xenocide”.

    public void MakeXML(){
        Library library = new Library();
        library.books = new List<Book>();       
        library.name = "Red";
        Book book = new Book();
        book.name = "Hobbit";
        library.books.Add(book);
        book.name = "Xenocide";
        library.books.Add(book);
    }

I was wondering if there is a way to acess the variable name inside the Class Book inside the List books, but I can’t seem to find something. Any help would be appreciated, Thanks.

Answer 1

As simple as:

library.books[0].name