Defining the fields to be exposed (serialized) not via DataMemberAttribute

Question

Hi, I have an autogenerated class, which I want to partially reuse as DataContract. Since the class is periodically auto-regenerated, I wouldn't like to add DataMemberAttribute to its properties, because it will be lost. What are the alternatives? Can I define which properties are going to be serialized programmatically or, may be, via a partial class?

Thanks!

Answer 1

The class is generated by Linq toSQL. Thank you!

Answer 2

You can add XmlAttributes at runtime with the XmlAttributeOverrides class but I'm not sure if you can do the same with DataMemberAttribute, have not come across an equivalent of XmlAttributeOverrides..