What is the purpose of the PropertySpecified pattern used by XML Serialization ?
What problem does it tryto solve ?
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It tries to solve the problem that int float and so on cannot be null, so it has no other way to signal whether the attribute/element exists in the XML file or not.
It was really only useful in .NET 1.x, since in .NET 2 you can just use Nullable<T> (e.g. int?) instead.
Dean Harding
2010-03-10 05:34:43
read about it here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.serialization.xmlserializer.aspx
Cheeso
2010-03-12 16:17:20