Question

I have a struct called coordinate which is contained in a list in another class called segment.

public struct Coordinate
{
    public double Latitude { get; set; }
    public double Longtitude { get; set; }
    public double Altitude { get; set; }
    public DateTime Time { get; set; }
}

public class Segment
{
    private List<Coordinate> coordinates;
    ...
}

I’d like to serialize the Segment class using the XmlSerializer using Silverlight (on Windows Phone 7). I understand from link text that XmlSerializer doesn’t support List<T>. What is the advised way of serializing a resizable array coordinates?

Thanks, Jurgen

Answer 1

I am of the opinion that one should always design his own serialization formats. It seems to be a minority opinion these days.

You never know what serializer becomes a file format and you really don’t want the ability to read your file formats dependent on .NET framework.