Question

I’m serializing class which contains DateTime property.

public DateTime? Delivered { get; set; } 

After serializing Delivered node contains DateTime formatted like this:

2008-11-20T00:00:00 

How can I change this property to make it look like this:

2008-11-20 00:00:00 

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

The hack I use for odd formatting during XmlSerialization is to have a special property that is only used during XmlSerialization

//normal DateTime accessor [XmlIgnore] public DateTime Delivered { get; set; }  //special XmlSerialization accessor [XmlAttribute('DateTime')] public string XmlDateTime {     get { return this.Delivered.ToString('o'); }     set { this.Delivered = new DateTime.Parse(value); } }