How to Deserialize a custom object having dictionary as a member?

[Madan Mishra]

I need to Deserialize object having 2 fields as string and one dictionary, i tried to convert but it throwing error as "Cannot serialize member MVVMDemo.Model.Student.books of type System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary"
it is doable when there is no dictionary item in but when i add that dictionary item it fail to convert. throwing error from below line

XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Student));
Here is my class
public class Student
{
private string firstName;
private string lastName;
public Dictionary<string, string> books;

[Required, ComplexColumnValueRequiredAttribute]
public Dictionary<string, string> Books
{
get
{
return books;
}
set
{
books = value;
}
}

public string FirstName
{
get
{
return firstName;
}

set
{
if (firstName != value)
{
firstName = value;
}
}
}

public string LastName
{
get { return lastName; }

set
{
if (lastName != value)
{
lastName = value;
}
}
}
}

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