Using XmlSerializer with private and public const properties

Question

What\'s the simplest way to get XmlSerializer to also serialize private and \"public const\" properties of a class or struct? Right not all it will output for me is things

Answer 1

Even though it's not possible to serialize private properties, you can serialize properties with an internal setter, like this one :

public string Foo { get; internal set; }

To do that, you need to pre-generate the serialization assembly with sgen.exe, and declare this assembly as friend :

[assembly:InternalsVisibleTo("MyAssembly.XmlSerializers")]