Question

I have an SQL view with a field as such:

To_char(date, 'MM-DD-YYYY')

I have a C# object with a DateTime property. The objects are created based on data retrieved from the database being serialized and then being de-serialized into the object. All works well apart from the DateTime field. Depending on the format of the date returned from the DB, I either get an invalid XML error, or the date is set as 01-01-0001

Edit: Additional code as a response to comment.

De-serialize method:

public static object DeSerialize<T>(string data)
    {

       StringReader rdr = new StringReader(data);
       XmlSerializer xmlSerializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
       var result = (T)xmlSerializer.Deserialize(rdr);
       return result;



    }

Class to be de-serialized:

public class VolumeData
{
    public string name { get; set; }
    public string study { get; set; }
    public string group { get; set; }
    public double volume { get; set; }
    public DateTime date { get; set; }
}

Used as such:

List<VolumeData> volumeDataCollection = (List<VolumeData>)Serializer.DeSerialize<List<VolumeData>>(xmlData);

As I mentioned, I have no issue using these methods de-serializing other objects, or the properties within this class that is not a DateTime.

Thanks.

Answer 1

This page describes a similar problem: Force XmlSerializer to serialize DateTime as 'YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss'

You might be able to cheat a little bit and mark your date field with the [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute] listed on that other stackoverflow page.