Question

I want to serialize an EF model like this

TableA theObject = db.TableA.find(uid);
XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(TableA));
XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create(Path.Combine(directory, filename));
serializer.Serialize(writer, theObject);
writer.Close();

But the code breaks and it says it cannot serialize the member because its an interface. Anyone know how to do it?

Answer 1

There are no ways to serialize an interface, thus the only way that I can do was, create a translation class for the EF object that I wanted to serialize

For collection members I used arrays like this

public class QueryModelTemplate
{
    public string Name { get; set; }

    public string Description { get; set; }

    public ParameterModelTemplate[] Parameters;
}