Question

I have a field in a class that is serialzed:

[OptionalField(VersionAdded = 2)]
public bool IsUser;

From what I understand, both private fields and properties are not serialized correct?

I want to put a breakpoint to see how the property IsUser is modified throughout the page request, how can I do this while still maintaining that the field is serialized as it is now.

Answer 1

The first assumption is generally not correct. Is does depend upon the serializer though. For something marked with the Serializable Attribute, this should hold:

All the public and private fields in a type that are marked by the SerializableAttribute are serialized by default,

To add a breakpoint, create a setter/getter wrapping the value and add the break-point to the assignment in the setter.

Happy coding.