XML serialization based on a node's attribute

I'm trying to code a couple of tools to manage Visual Studio's projects. The reason why I need an external program for that is that 1) I use VS Express, so I have no macro support, and 2) it may be useful to perform similar operations on VS and non-VS projects.

The first thing I though about when I needed to model a VS project was to use c#'s XML serialization to load and save the project. But the vcproj file (C++ project file) has configurations that are defined like this:

Code:

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                <Configuration
                        Name="Debug|Win32"
                        OutputDirectory="..\$(ConfigurationName)"
                        IntermediateDirectory="$(ConfigurationName)"
                        ConfigurationType="4"
                        CharacterSet="2"
                        >
                        <Tool
                                Name="VCPreBuildEventTool"
                        />
                        <Tool
                                Name="VCCustomBuildTool"
                        />
                        <Tool
                                Name="VCXMLDataGeneratorTool"
                        />
                        <Tool
                                Name="VCWebServiceProxyGeneratorTool"
                        />
                        <Tool
                                Name="VCMIDLTool"
                        />
                        ...

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If I associate the "Tool" XmlElement to a certain class, I am not able to differentiate between the different type of tools. What I would need is to differentiate the classes the element is serialized/deserialized to/from based on the element's "Name" attribute, but I haven't found anything about how to do this.

Can anybody please give suggestions? Thanks.

Nobody has an idea on how to solve this problem? Of course I could load the XML tree and then serialize/deserialize the project myself, but it would be great to use the C# serialization utilities.