Adjust MVC 4 WebApi XmlSerializer to lose the nameSpace

Question

I\'m working on a MVC WebAPI, that uses EF with POCO classes for storage. What I want to do is get rid of the namespace from the XML, so that the endpoints would return and

Answer 1

It's been awhile since I messed with MVC 4, but we ended up replacing the default formatter with the XmlSerializer like so:

protected void Application_Start()
    {
        AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas();

        FilterConfig.RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilters.Filters);
        RouteConfig.RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);
        BundleConfig.RegisterBundles(BundleTable.Bundles);

        GlobalConfiguration.Configuration.Formatters.JsonFormatter.SerializerSettings = GetSerializeSettings();
        GlobalConfiguration.Configuration.Formatters.XmlFormatter.UseXmlSerializer = true;
    }

    internal JsonSerializerSettings GetSerializeSettings()
    {
        return new JsonSerializerSettings
                           {
                               Formatting = Formatting.Indented,
                               ContractResolver = new CamelCasePropertyNamesContractResolver(),
                               Converters = new List { new IsoDateTimeConverter() }
                           };
    }

This might help... I know we also customized the property names using attributes on the POCOs which you said you don't want to do, but that's because we wanted them to be camel-cased.