Need to create an XML from a class object

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User-1404317421 posted

Hi All,

I'm joining 2 list objects and creating a master list data which is of type T: class and would like to serialize it to XML with the below format. How can i achieve this?

<Reports>
  <Header>
    <PrintedDate>2016-07-01T15:16:09.473</PrintedDate>
    <PrintedBy>XYZ</PrintedBy>
  </Header>
  <Report>
    <Name>dd</Name>
    <UserName />
    <Remarks />
    <IPAddress>192.168.1.83</IPAddress>
    <CreatedDate>2015-10-07T17:48:35.243</CreatedDate>
    <AppID>OS</AppID>
    <AppVersion>0.0.0.2</AppVersion>
    <LoginDate>2015-10-07T17:48:05.380</LoginDate>
    <LogoutDate>1900-01-01T00:00:00</LogoutDate>
  </Report>
  <Report>
    <Name>ff</Name>
    <UserName />
    <Remarks />
    <IPAddress>192.168.1.83</IPAddress>
    <CreatedDate>2015-10-07T17:49:36.107</CreatedDate>
    <AppID>OS</AppID>
    <AppVersion>0.0.0.2</AppVersion>
    <LoginDate>2015-10-07T17:49:26.287</LoginDate>
    <LogoutDate>1900-01-01T00:00:00</LogoutDate>
  </Report>
</Reports>

This is my class file which i'm serializing

    [Serializable]
    [XmlRoot(ElementName = "Reports")]
    public class UserReportJoinedData
    {
        public DateTime CreatedDate { get; set; }
        public string LogType { get; set; }
        public string LoginID { get; set; }
        public string Name { get; set; }
        public string AppVersion { get; set; }
        public string System { get; set; }
        public string UserIPAddress { get; set; }
        public DateTime? LoginDate { get; set; }
        public DateTime? LogoutDate { get; set; }
        public string Remarks { get; set; }

        public UserReportJoinedData()
        {

        }
    }

But, now I'm getting the XML in the below format,

<ArrayOfUserReportJoinedData>
<UserReportJoinedData>
<CreatedDate>2015-10-07T17:48:35</CreatedDate>
<LogType>Login</LogType>
<LoginID>B1ADMIN</LoginID>
<Name>ef</Name>
<AppVersion/>
<System>OS</System>
<UserIPAddress>192.168.1.83</UserIPAddress>
<LoginDate>2015-10-07T17:48:05</LoginDate>
<LogoutDate xmlns:p3="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" p3:nil="true"/>
<Remarks/>
</UserReportJoinedData>
<UserReportJoinedData>
<CreatedDate>2015-10-07T17:48:35</CreatedDate>
<LogType>Login</LogType>
<LoginID>B1ADMIN</LoginID>
<Name>rr</Name>
<AppVersion/>
<System>OS</System>
<UserIPAddress>192.168.1.83</UserIPAddress>
<LoginDate>2015-10-07T17:48:05</LoginDate>
<LogoutDate xmlns:p3="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" p3:nil="true"/>
<Remarks/>
</UserReportJoinedData>
</ArrayOfUserReportJoinedData>

I would like to replace UserReportJoinedData with Report and ArrayOfUserReportJoinedData to Reports and need to add <Header> section as shown in the required XML file above.