Custom Collection

[Islamegy®]

I have started to implement Strongly typed CustomCollection for my Entities
instead of using Dataset & Datatable..

All my Collection Classes inherit from CollectionBase.. I tried to serialize
my class to save state by implementing ISerializable interface but I wasn't
able to deserialize it again (so my class wont manage it's state) because
InnerList & List is read only so How could i work around this??
Am i better use microsoft cache Block to cache my collection or i better use
serialize my collection and how??

thanx

 

[Islamegy®]

May be I miss some concept in serialization topic while i didn't use it
before so any help to make things clear to me will be great.

 

[Kevin Spencer]

You can certainly serialize and deserialize as XML classes which inherit
CollectionBase. There are a few rules:

1. The class must implement a parameterless Contructor. You can overload it
if necessary.
2. There must be an Add Method defined.

See the following for more details:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemxmlserialization.asp

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
Ambiguity has a certain quality to it.