xmlSerialize two lists of different objects

Question

I need help to serialize two lists and write them in a xml file. The code I tried is

XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(List));
XmlSe         


        

Answer 1

Why not create a single class that would have both List types in it and serialize that class. like below.

public class Combined
{
 public List<OtherAction> otherActions{get; set;}
 public List<Action> actions{get; set;}
}


XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(List<Combined>));
using (StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter("CombinedActions.xml"))
{
   xs.Serialize(sw, listCombinedActions);
}