Question

I am working on some classes which I need to serialize/deserialize to xml, that can be used for configuration. Here is a sample of what I am trying to do

[Serializable]
public class MyConfig
{
    [XmlElement] 
    public string ConfigOption { get; set; }
    [XmlElement] 
    public Uri SomeUri { get; set; }
}

I want to override the way that the Uri property is being serialized. So when the serialize method is called, I want it to look like this

<MyConfig>
  <ConfigOption></ConfigOption>
  <SomeUri uri="" />
</MyConfig>

Is there a way to plug into .net serialization and override how all Uri objects are serialized and deserialized? Note that I dont want to create a class called MyUri and use that as the type of SomeUri, I just want to plug into the place where the serialized serializes types of Uri and override that behavior.

Answer 1

public class MyConfig
{
    [XmlElement] 
    public string ConfigOption { get; set; }
    [XmlElement] 
    public MyUri SomeUri { get; set; }
}

public class MyUri
{
    [XmlAttribute(Name="uri")]
    public Uri SomeUri { get; set; }
}