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The XmlSerializer class provides a great way to convert (serialize) objects to XML and back (deserialize). However, it can be difficult to serialize collections such as Arrays and ArrayLists properly ...

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I'm getting no love from Stackoverflow, so I'm re-posting here. Hopefully someone can tell me if what I'm expecting / trying to accomplish is realistic or how to better approach it: Right now, I'm ...

LINQ to SQL is more stable and bug-free than most Microsoft version 1 products, but data-oriented .NET developers com-­plain the free O/RM tool doesn't offer the Entity Framework (EF) capability to ...