xml serialization of private fields

[Mark Itzcovitz]

I have a web method that returns a struct, and all the fields in the struct,
which are marked as public, get nicely serialized to xml. However, what I
really want is the fields to be private so the struct can only be treated as
a "black box". From everything I have read it seems that there is no way of
having anything other than public fields automatically serialized. Can
anyone tell me if I'm missing something?

Thanks,

Mark

 

[Jan Tielens]

That's right, by default only public properties and fields are serialized.

To overcome this you can write your own serializer and de-serializer. For
more info check out following links:
http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/msgs/4/21971.aspx
http://tinyurl.com/2fgup

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[Mark Itzcovitz]

Thanks, I'll bear that in mind if I decide I can't live with the fields
being public.