Serializing an arraylist in C#
<p>I have a class that contains a number of standard fields and an arraylist.</p>

<p>Is there any way to serialize the class using an XmlSerializer?</p>

<p>Attempts so far result in an error message saying:</p>

<pre>Unhandled Exception: System.InvalidOperationException: There was an error
generating the XML document. ---> System.InvalidOperationException: The type
XMLSerialization.DataPoints was not  expected. Use  the XmlInclude or
SoapInclude attribute  to specify types that are not known statically.</pre>

<p>Some cut-down representations of the classes are shown below:</p>

<pre><code>public class StationData
{
  private DateTime _CollectionDate;
  private string _StationID;
  private ArrayList _PolledData;

  public StationData()
  {
  }
  public DateTime CollectionDate
  {
    get { return _CollectionDate; }
    set { _CollectionDate = value; }
  }
  public string StationID
  {
    get { return _StationID; }
    set { _StationID = value; }
  }
  [XmlInclude(typeof(DataPoints))]
  public ArrayList PolledData
  {
    get { return _PolledData; }
    set { _PolledData = value; }
  }
}

public class DataPoints
{
  private string _SubStationID;
  private int _PointValue;

  public DataPoints
  {
  }
  public string SubStationID
  {
    get { return _SubStationID; }
    set { _SubStationID = value; }
  }
  public int PointValue
  {
    get { return _PointValue; }
    set { _PointValue = value; }
  }
}
</code></pre>
