xml-serialization

C# Serialize EventArgs to Xml

I am trying to serialize an object that contains an EventArgs object. If I ignore the EventArgs object upon serialization, everything works fine, but if I don't put an [XmlIgnore] above it, the application crashes with the error message System.InvalidOperationException was unhandled Message=There was an error generating the XML docume...

Is there any way to override what string value my custom type gets converted to when serializing via DataContract?

In my music/rhythm game, I using serialization in order to save user-created simfiles (think music tabs or notecharts). Nothing too earth-shattering there. But, I'm using a DataContract in order to perform the serialization, because: 1) I need private and protected fields serialized as well. I don't care if they're visible, mainly due t...

Concise XML from EntityObject through WCF?

I'm rather new to WCF and the Entity Framework, so bear with me. I'm passing objects generated by the Entity Framework through a WCF service, and I want to be able to access said objects with both SOAP and REST. What I have currently works, but the outputted XML seems far more bloated than it needs to be. Here's an example response from...

Xml attributes and collections

Hi guys, I have an xml file, something like this: <root> <groups> <group /> <group /> </groups> </root> Now, I want to make a class something like this: [XmlRoot] public class Root { [XmlElement("groups")] public Groups Groups { get; set; } } The problem is that the XmlElement attribute will make all the co...