Why doesn’t XmlSerializer support Dictionary?

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Hashtables need hashcode and equality comparer providers generally. These cant be serialized easily in XML, and definitely will not be portable.

But I think you already found your answer. Just serialize the hashtable as a List<KeyValuePair<K,V>> and then (re)construct it into a hashtable.

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