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    copied!<p>I have this xml snippet as part of a xml file that will be deserialized to a c# object</p> <pre><code>&lt;EmailConfiguration&gt; &lt;SendTo&gt; &lt;Address&gt;myEmailAdress@bah.com&lt;/Address&gt; &lt;Address&gt;also send to&lt;/Address&gt; &lt;/SendTo&gt; &lt;CC&gt; &lt;Address&gt;CC&lt;/Address&gt; &lt;/CC&gt; &lt;BCC&gt; &lt;Address&gt;BCC&lt;/Address&gt; &lt;/BCC&gt; &lt;/EmailConfiguration&gt; </code></pre> <p>Notice the SendToAddress is a collection of Addresses</p> <pre><code>&lt;Address&gt;myEmailAddress@bah.com&lt;/Address&gt; &lt;Address&gt;also send to&lt;/Address&gt; </code></pre> <p>My Class currently looks like this </p> <pre><code>public class SendTo { public string Address { get; set; } } </code></pre> <p>This is good for 1 address, how do I change the class so that it can handle more than 1 address.</p> <p>I tried </p> <pre><code>public class SendTo { public string[] Address { get; set; } } </code></pre> <p>But with this, nothing gets populated when the xml is deserialized to a class.</p> <p><strong>Update</strong></p> <p>tried...also without success....</p> <pre><code>public class SendTo { public List&lt;string&gt; Address { get; set; } } </code></pre> <p>Here is the entire class</p> <pre><code>namespace myConfiguration { public class myConfiguration { private string myID; public string MyID { get { return myID; } set { myID = value; } } public Locale Locale { get; set; } public EmailConfiguration EmailConfiguration { get; set; } } public class Locale { public string LocaleName { get; set; } public string LocaleCode { get; set; } } public class EmailConfiguration { public SendTo SendTo { set; get; } public SendTo CC { set; get; } public SendTo BCC { set; get; } } public class SendTo { public List&lt;string&gt; Address { get; set; } } </code></pre> <p>}</p> <p>Here is the XML that I am deserializing from ...</p> <pre><code> &lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?&gt; &lt;MyConfiguration&gt; &lt;MyID&gt;vpfaewb&lt;/MyID&gt; &lt;Locale&gt; &lt;LocaleName&gt;cs-CZ&lt;/LocaleName&gt; &lt;LocaleCode&gt;1029&lt;/LocaleCode&gt; &lt;/Locale&gt; &lt;EmailConfiguration&gt; &lt;SendTo&gt; &lt;Address&gt;my email address&lt;/Address&gt; &lt;Address&gt;also send to&lt;/Address&gt; &lt;/SendTo&gt; &lt;CC&gt; &lt;Address&gt;CC&lt;/Address&gt; &lt;/CC&gt; &lt;BCC&gt; &lt;Address&gt;BCC&lt;/Address&gt; &lt;/BCC&gt; &lt;/EmailConfiguration&gt; &lt;/MyConfiguration&gt; </code></pre>
 

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