Have you ever needed to implement configuration sections for the application configuration file with C#? If you want to implement such a section for the application configuration file you need to dive deep into the System.Configuration namespace which offers quite powerful collections and attribute based configuration methods to implement configuration sections. But there is actually an easier way to implement such a section without divining deep into System.Configuration. The solution is serialization!

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