Serialize Dictionary member to XML elements and data

Question

I have a class \'products\' that is serializable to XML. I\'m using the standard System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer to serialize and a XmlWriter \'writer\' object to write t

Answer 1

Make the dictionary NonSerialized

[XmlRoot("specifications")]
    public class Specifications
    {
         [NonSerialized]
         Dictionary dict { get; set; }
         [XmlElement("color")]
         string color {get;set;}
         [XmlElement("length")]
         string length { get; set; }
         [XmlElement("width")]
         string width { get; set; }

         public Specifications()
         {
             dict = new Dictionary();
         }
    }