How to deserialize into a List<String> using the XmlSerializer

Question

I'm trying to deserialize the XML below into class, with the Components deserialized into a List<string>, but can't figure out how to do so. The deserializer is working fine for all the other properties, but not Components. Anyone know how to do this?

<ArsAction>   <CustomerName>Joe Smith</CustomerName>   <LoginID>jdsmith</LoginID>   <TicketGroup>DMS</TicketGroup>   <Software>Visio 2007 Pro</Software>   <Components>     <Component>Component 1</Component>     <Component>Component 2</Component>   </Components>   <Bldg>887</Bldg>   <Room>1320p</Room> </ArsAction> 

Answer 1

Add a property like this to hold the list of Components:

[XmlArray()] public List<Component> Components { get; set; } 

Edit: Sorry I misread that. You want to read it into a collection of strings. I just tried this below and it worked on your sample. The key is just to setup the correct xml serialization attributes.

public class ArsAction {     [XmlArray]     [XmlArrayItem(ElementName="Component")]     public List<string> Components { get; set; } }