Is there an attribute to turn off serialisation for fields in a custom object (DataContractJsonSerializer)

Question

I am using the DataContractJsonSerializer class to serialise my objects to JSON.

Is there an attribute I can use on fields in my custom objects (C#) that will turn off serialisation for that one particular field?

Answer 1

If you use the DataContractAttribute to decorate your class, you will then be required to use the DataMemberAttribute to mark the fields/properties that you want to have serialized. I don't think that there is any attribute that can turn off serialization of a public property/field on a class without the DataContractAttribute. MSDN has a tutorial on how to serialize data as JSON.

Answer 2

Actually, there is a way: IgnoreDataMemberAttribute

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.runtime.serialization.ignoredatamemberattribute.aspx and http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc656732.aspx for full documentation.