Change the order of elements when serializing XML

Question

I need to serialize an Object to XML and back. The XML is fix and I can\'t change it. I fail to generate this structure after bookingList.

How can I \"

Answer 1

Try decorating the properties of the bookingListclass with the XmlElementAttribute, in order to control how the objects of that class are going to be serialized to XML.

Here's an example:

public class bookingList
{
    [XmlElement(Order = 1)]
    public string error { get; set; }
    [XmlElement(Order = 2)]
    public int counter { get; set; }
    [XmlElement(ElementName = "booking", Order = 3)]
    public List bookings = new List();
}

public class booking
{
    public int id { get; set; }
}

In my test I obtained this output:

 

    sample
    0
    
        1 
    
    
        2 
    
    
        3 
     

Related resources:

• Controlling XML Serialization Using Attributes