Serialization breaks in .NET 4.5

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In 4.5, the implementation of XmlSerializer was replaced with one that isn’t dependent on the C# compiler. While it provides better startup performance and stability, you might be running into a compatibility issue between the implementations. Can you try adding the following to your app.config file and see if that fixes the issue?

<configuration>
  <system.xml.serialization>
    <xmlSerializer useLegacySerializerGeneration="true"/>
  </system.xml.serialization>
</configuration>

If you’re concerned about having this work on 4.0, you could try detecting the version of the framework at runtime, and dynamically change the configuration if the runtime is 4.5 or higher. I wrote a blog post a while back explaining how to do that:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/youssefm/archive/2010/01/21/how-to-change-net-configuration-files-at-runtime-including-for-wcf.aspx

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