I have a couple extension methods that handle serialization of my classes, and since it can be a time consuming process, they are created once per class, and handed out by this method.
public static XmlSerializer GetSerializerFor(Type typeOfT)
{
if (!serializers.ContainsKey(typeOfT))
{
var xmlAttributes = new XmlAttributes();
var xmlAttributeOverrides = new XmlAttributeOverrides();
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(string.Format("XmlSerializerFactory.GetSerializerFor(typeof({0}));", typeOfT));
xmlAttributes.Xmlns = false;
xmlAttributeOverrides.Add(typeOfT, xmlAttributes);
var newSerializer = new XmlSerializer(typeOfT, xmlAttributeOverrides);
serializers.Add(typeOfT, newSerializer);
}
return serializers[typeOfT];
}
This is called by the extension method .Serialize()
public static XElement Serialize(this object source)
{
try
{
var serializer = XmlSerializerFactory.GetSerializerFor(source.GetType());
var xdoc = new XDocument();
using (var writer = xdoc.CreateWriter())
{
serializer.Serialize(writer, source, new XmlSerializerNamespaces(new[] { new XmlQualifiedName("", "") }));
}
return (xdoc.Document != null) ? xdoc.Document.Root : new XElement("Error", "Document Missing");
}
catch (Exception x)
{
return new XElement("Error", x.ToString());
}
}
Unfortunately, when Serializing classes that are auto-generated, they have the attribute XmlTypeAttribute(Namespace="http://tempuri.org/") applied to them.
This causes the deserialization by the the non-auto-generated counterparts to fail.
I need the serializer to completely ignore and not apply the namespace, but what I have written in the first block of code doesn't seem to remove it, I still end up with xml like this
<Note>
<ID xmlns="h