XML Question

[Mark M.]

I'm using a tool to validate my code (FxCop). It says
that I should make a property that returns a collection to
be read-only. I can't do this though because I need it
for deserialization.

Then it says:
"Note that the XmlSerializer class has special support for
deserializing read-only collections. See the XmlSerializer
overview for more information."

This sounds good but I can't find the info it's talking
about. Can anyone else?

Thanks,
Mark

 

[Ed Kaim [MSFT]]

The XmlSerializer overview is at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...emXmlSerializationXmlSerializerClassTopic.asp.
The idea is that although the collection object itself is read-only, the
info it contains can be changed. If you return a read-only ArrayList instead
of blah[], then someone can add or remove objects from the ArrayList, but
they can't change the property itself. With blah[], you can't add or remove.