How to serialize an object to XML without getting xmlns=”…”?

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Ahh… nevermind. It’s always the search after the question is posed that yields the answer. My object that is being serialized is obj and has already been defined. Adding an XMLSerializerNamespace with a single empty namespace to the collection does the trick.

In VB like this:

Dim xs As New XmlSerializer(GetType(cEmploymentDetail))
Dim ns As New XmlSerializerNamespaces()
ns.Add("", "")

Dim settings As New XmlWriterSettings()
settings.OmitXmlDeclaration = True

Using ms As New MemoryStream(), _
    sw As XmlWriter = XmlWriter.Create(ms, settings), _
    sr As New StreamReader(ms)
    xs.Serialize(sw, obj, ns)
    ms.Position = 0
    Console.WriteLine(sr.ReadToEnd())
End Using

in C# like this:

//Create our own namespaces for the output
XmlSerializerNamespaces ns = new XmlSerializerNamespaces();

//Add an empty namespace and empty value
ns.Add("", "");

//Create the serializer
XmlSerializer slz = new XmlSerializer(someType);

//Serialize the object with our own namespaces (notice the overload)
slz.Serialize(myXmlTextWriter, someObject, ns);

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