C# Saving an arraylist to a file?

Question

I have a simple program where I would like to save an arraylist to a file, so that when the program is restarted, it loads from the file to the arraylist in memory.

Is this possible in C#? Or do I need to itterate over the arraylist countaining my custom classes and in someway print them out?

Any tips on a correct way to do this?

Answer 1

You will want to look into Serialization. Here's a link to get you going.

Answer 2

Yes,instead of ArrayList ,use List<T> and store the data in XML file .When the program starts up read that XML file.

Answer 3

Look at the DeSerializeObject and SerializeObject methods in this post

http://weblogs.asp.net/rajbk/archive/2009/10/04/xmlserializer-and-invalid-xml.aspx