Question

I have this xml snippet as part of a xml file that will be deserialized to a c# object

<EmailConfiguration>
<SendTo>
    <Address>[e-mail]</Address>
    <Address>also send to</Address>
</SendTo>
<CC>
    <Address>CC</Address>
</CC>
<BCC>
    <Address>BCC</Address>
</BCC>
</EmailConfiguration>

Notice the SendToAddress is a collection of Addresses

<Address>[e-mail]</Address>
<Address>also send to</Address>

My Class currently looks like this

public class SendTo
{
    public string Address
    {
        get;
        set;
    }
}

This is good for 1 address, how do I change the class so that it can handle more than 1 address.

I tried

public class SendTo
{
    public string[] Address
    {
        get;
        set;
    }
}

But with this, nothing gets populated when the xml is deserialized to a class.

Update

tried…also without success….

public class SendTo
{
    public List<string> Address
    {
        get;
        set;
    }
}

Here is the entire class

namespace myConfiguration
   {
public class myConfiguration
{
    private string myID;


    public string MyID
    {
        get { return myID; }
        set { myID = value; }
    }

    public Locale Locale
    {
        get;
        set;
    }

    public EmailConfiguration EmailConfiguration
    {
        get;
        set;
    }

}

public class Locale
{
    public string LocaleName
    {
        get;
        set;
    }
    public string LocaleCode
    {
        get;
        set;
    }
}

public class EmailConfiguration
{
    public SendTo SendTo
    {
        set;
        get;
    }
    public SendTo CC
    {
        set;
        get;
    }
    public SendTo BCC
    {
        set;
        get;
    }
}

public class SendTo
{
    public List<string> Address
    {
        get;
        set;
    }
}

}

Here is the XML that I am deserializing from …

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
 <MyConfiguration>
 <MyID>vpfaewb</MyID>
 <Locale>
    <LocaleName>cs-CZ</LocaleName>
 <LocaleCode>1029</LocaleCode>
 </Locale>
<EmailConfiguration>
<SendTo>
    <Address>my email address</Address>
    <Address>also send to</Address>
</SendTo>
<CC>
    <Address>CC</Address>
</CC>
<BCC>
    <Address>BCC</Address>
</BCC>
  </EmailConfiguration>
</MyConfiguration>

Answer 1

Try this:

[XmlArrayItem("Address", IsNullable=false)]
public string[] SendTo
{
    get
    {
        return this.sendToField;
    }
    set
    {
        this.sendToField = value;
    }
}