Suppress Null Value Types from Being Emitted by XmlSerializer

Question

Please consider the following Amount value type property which is marked as a nullable XmlElement:

[XmlElement(IsNullable=true)] 
public double? Amount { ge         


        

Answer 1

There is also an alternative to get

  instead of 

Use

[XmlElement("amount", IsNullable = false)]
public string SerializableAmount
{
    get { return this.Amount == null ? "" : this.Amount.ToString(); }
    set { this.Amount = Convert.ToDouble(value); }
}