.NET Serialization Ordering

Question

I am trying to serialize some objects using XmlSerializer and inheritance but I am having some problems with ordering the outcome.

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Answer 1

I know this question has expired; however, here is a solution for this problem:

The name of the method should always begin with ShouldSerialize and then end with the property name. Then you simply need to return a boolean based on whatever conditional you want, as to whether to serialize the value or not.

public class SerializableBase
{
    public bool Property1 { get; set;}
    public bool Property2 { get; set;}
    public bool Property3 { get; set;}

    public virtual bool ShouldSerializeProperty2 { get { return false; } }
}

[XmlRoot("Object")]
public class SerializableObject1 : SerializableBase
{        
}

[XmlRoot("Object")]
public class SerializableObject2 : SerializableBase
{
    public override bool ShouldSerializeProperty2 { get { return true; } }
}

The outcome when using SerializableObject2: ~

The outcome when using SerializableObject1: ~

Hope this helps many others!