Quick Tip: Serializing an Object Field as an XML Attribute

posted by  mneon (8)  15 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

The addition of the XML Serializer is one of the reasons I really love version 2 of the .NET Compact Framework.  I use the XML Serializer in very nearly every application I write; to save application state, data files, etc.  By default, the XML Serializer will create a child node for every field in a type.  For example, the following objectpublic class TestData{    public Int32 TestID;    public String Description;}becomes<TestData xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml