Question

I’m playing with serialization (specifically XmlSerializer) and am slightly confused.

The class I intend to serialize has the attribute:

[System.SerializableAttribute()]

This is great, but when I derive from the class, I can still serialize the derived class?
This is odd because I thought attributes weren’t inherited to the derived class?

Secondly, to compound my confusion, I created just a standard class that didn’t inherit from anything, nor did I mark it with any attributes, and I could still serialize it?

Answer 1

SerializableAttribute does not affect XmlSerializer. This attribute is for other serialization formats such as the BinaryFormatter.