How to XmlSerialize System.Drawing.Font class

Question

The classSystem.Drawing.Font is not XML Serializable since it doesn\'t have a default (empty) constructor.
Is there some work around or alternative way to

Answer 1

Try the DataContractSerializer.

        Font fnt = new Font("Arial", 1);
        MemoryStream data = new MemoryStream();
        DataContractSerializer dcs = new DataContractSerializer(typeof(Font), new[] { typeof(FontStyle), typeof(GraphicsUnit) });
        dcs.WriteObject(data, fnt);
        string xml = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(data.ToArray());