Obsolete attribute causes property to be ignored by XmlSerialization

Question

I\'m refactoring some objects that are serialized to XML but need to keep a few properties for backwards compatibility, I\'ve got a method that converts the old object into

Answer 1

You may try the following workaround:

add a method named

ShouldSerializeOldObject ()
{
   return true;
}

ShouldSerializeAnotherOldObject ()
{
   return true
}

this may override the obsolete Attribute