How to control the root name with which an array of a custom class objects are serialized????

[Bob Rock]

Hello,

is there a way of controlling the name with which an array of objects of a
custom class is serialized???

public class MyClass
{
.......
}

[WebMethod]
public MyClass[] MyMethod()
{
.......
.......
}

When serializing an array of MyClass objects through a web method I get as
the root node something like <ArrayOfMyClass1 xmlns="...." ....>.
I'd like to be able to define myself the name of the root element. Can this
be done???

Bob Rock

 

[Dino Chiesa [Microsoft]]

You should look at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e...gsoapinaspnetwebserviceswebserviceclients.asp

and
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e...erializationbyxmlserializerwithattributes.asp

I think if you apply a
[return: XmlArray("ElementName")]
attribute to the webmethod, you may get what you want.

-Dino