[NonSerialized] in C++/CLI

Question

When I'm trying serialize a class containing this property:

[NonSerialized]
property System::Collections::ObjectModel::ReadOnlyCollection<String^>^ IgnoredWords

I get a compilation error saying:

fatal error C1093: API call 'DefineCustomAttribute' failed '0x801311c0'

How do I tell the serializer that I do not want to serialize this property (and, yes, by default it tries to, which causes a run time error)? Ekeforshus

Answer 1

(inferring from xml-serialization tag) You want [XmlIgnore] for XmlSerializer.

[NonSerialized] is for BinaryFormatter etc, and only applies to fields, not properties (which is probably why you are getting DefineCustomAttribute failures).