During an object’s de-serialization, the class responsible for de-serializing an object creates an instance of the serialized class and then proceeds to populate the serialized fields and properties only after acquiring an instance to populate. You can make your constructor private or internal if you want, just so long as it’s parameterless.
You have to use XmlSerializer for XML serialization. Below is a sample snippet. XmlSerializer xsSubmit = new XmlSerializer(typeof(MyObject)); var subReq = new MyObject(); var xml = “”; using(var sww = new StringWriter()) { using(XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create(sww)) { xsSubmit.Serialize(writer, subReq); xml = sww.ToString(); // Your XML } } As per @kiquenet request for generic class: … Read more
Yes, GetSchema() should return null. IXmlSerializable.GetSchema Method This method is reserved and should not be used. When implementing the IXmlSerializable interface, you should return a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) from this method, and instead, if specifying a custom schema is required, apply the XmlSchemaProviderAttribute to the class. For both read and write, the … Read more