Struggling with Serializing an Array of Objects. Need Help

[.paul.]

to deserialize:

ItemsOrders = New List(Of Item)
Dim serializer As New Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer(GetType(List(Of Item)))
Dim SR As New IO.StreamReader("test.xml")
ItemsOrders = DirectCast(serializer.Deserialize(SR), Global.System.Collections.Generic.List(Of Item))
SR.Close()