Question

I have a regular C# POCO. At the class level, I am decorating the object with [Serializable()].

That said, I am using the Linq Sum() on one of the properties and I am receiving an error upon serialization. If possible, I would like to just simply ignore this property. However, the [XmlIgnore()] is only for Xml Serialization, not Binary. Any ideas or thoughts?

The code is something like this, where I would like to ignore ValueTotal:

[Serializable()]
public class Foo
{
  public IList<Number> Nums { get; set; }

  public long ValueTotal
  {
    get { return Nums.Sum(x => x.value); }
  }
}

Answer 1

Cheat and use a method

[Serializable()]
public class Foo
{
  public IList<Number> Nums { get; set; }

  public long GetValueTotal()
  {
    return Nums.Sum(x => x.value);
  }
}