Question

I have a generated object from running the xsd.exe which has the following property with backing field:

private System.DateTime deliveryDateField;

/// <remarks/>
public System.DateTime DeliveryDate 
{
    get 
    {
        return this.deliveryDateField;
    }
    set 
    {
        this.deliveryDateField = value;
    }
}

this is generated from:

<xs:element name="DeliveryDate" type="xs:dateTime" minOccurs="0"/>

which I am trying to serialize using:

var t = new Transaction();
t.DeliveryDate = new DateTime(2011,11,11);
var xs = new XmlSerializer(t.GetType());

string outString;

using (var ms = new MemoryStream())
{
    xs.Serialize(ms, t);
    ms.Position = 0;
    using (var sr = new StreamReader(ms))
    {
       outString = sr.ReadToEnd();
    }
}
return outString;

whatever value I set this to it is getting lost on the serialization process while other elements are fine. What do I need to do to get this serializing properly?

Thanks

Answer 1

You probably also have a property called DeliveryDateSpecified on your Transaction class? This is because your DeliveryDate is not mandatory. If you set this to true your DeliveryDate will also get serialized.