How to prevent auto implemented properties from being serialized?

Question

How can I prevent a auto implemented property from being serialized by the binary formatter? The [NonSerialized] attribute can only be used with fields. And the field is hi

Answer 1

I'm not sure you can. This MSDN article on SerializableAttribute suggests you implement ISerializable and control the serialisation yourself:

All the public and private fields in a type that are marked by the SerializableAttribute are serialized by default, unless the type implements the ISerializable interface to override the serialization process.

Or switch away from an auto-property for that specific field.