XML serialization of a collection in C#

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Published on 2009-09-23T09:56:50Z Indexed on 2010/04/28 7:43 UTC
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I have two classes as follows:

    public class Info
    { 
        [XmlAttribute] public string language;
        public int version;
        public Book book;

        public Info() { }

        public Info(string l, int v, string author, int quantity, int price)
        {
        this.language = l;
        this.version = v;
        book = new Book(author, quantity, price);
        }


    }

    public class Book
    {
            [XmlAttribute] public string author;
            public int quantity;
            public int price;
            [XmlIgnore]public int total;
            public NameValueCollection nvcollection = new NameValueCollection();

            public Book() { }

            public Book(string author, int quantity, int price)
            {
            this.author = author;
            this.quantity = quantity;
            this.price = price;
            total = quantity * price;
            nvcollection.Add(author, price.ToString());
            }

    }

I have created an ArrayList which adds the two instances of Info class as follows:

            FileStream fs = new FileStream("SerializedInfo.XML", FileMode.Create);

            List<Info> arrList = new List<Info>();

            XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(List<Info>));

            Info pObj = new Info("ABC", 3, "DEF", 2, 6);

            Info pObj1 = new Info("GHI", 4, "JKL", 2, 8);

            arrList.Add(pObj);
            arrList.Add(pObj1);

            xs.Serialize(fs, arrList);

            fs.Close(); 

But when I try to serialize, I get an exception as "There was an error reflecting type 'System.Collections.Generic.List`1[ConsoleApplicationSerialization.Info]'."

Can anyone help me with it?

Also, instead of namevaluecollection, which type of structure can i use?

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