R – .Net class with NHibernate and XmlSerializer

Interesting... the best I can suggest is to use [XmlIgnore] on Documents - and does ActiveRecord have a similar way of ignoring a member? You could do something like:

[XmlIgnore]
public virtual IList<Document> Documents
{
    get { return documents; }
    set
    {
        documents = value;    
    }
}

[Tell ActiveRecord to ignore this one...]
[XmlArray("Documents"), XmlArrayItem("Document")]
[Browsable(false), EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Never)]
public Document[] DocumentsSerialization {
    get {
         if(Documents==null) return null;
         return Documents.ToArray(); // LINQ; or do the long way
    }
    set {
         if(value == null) { Documents = null;}
         else { Documents = new List<Document>(value); }
    }
}

The simple answer is no, you can't tell NHibernate to use List<T>. This earlier question discusses it in more detail.

The best article I could find on serializing NHibernate objects is targeted to WCF users.