Thomas Levesque • 6/12/2009

[C#] Parent/child relationship and XML serialization

This technical article addresses a common C# design challenge: serializing objects with bidirectional parent-child references (like a parent with a list of children, each referencing the parent) to XML without circular reference errors. It explains the problem with XmlIgnore and broken relationships after deserialization, then presents an elegant solution involving a custom IChildItem<P> interface and a specialized ChildItemCollection<P,T> to maintain consistency.

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#c #XML Serialization #Class Design