XmlRoot() for Xml Serilization does not work

Question

I\'m trying to get my httphandler to print out an XML file with the format:

    ...

        

Answer 1

You need to use the overloaded constructor that takes in a XmlAttributeOverrides and make sure you override the name of the ScheduledShow class.

Answer 2

I found an answer to my question here:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/asmxandxml/thread/4b228734-a209-445a-991c-0420b381ac93

I just used [XmlType("")] and that worked.

using System;
using System.Xml.Serialization;


namespace CommunityServer.Scheduler
{

    [XmlType("ScheduledShowElement")]
    public class ScheduledShow
    {

      ...
    }
}

Answer 3

[XmlRoot(...)] only affects the outermost element (<ScheduledShows>...</ScheduledShows>). I suspect you want [XmlElement(...)]. Of course, another way is to write an object wrapper:

[XmlRoot("SheduledShows")]
public class Shows {
    [XmlElement("SheduledShowElement")]
    public List<Show> Shows {get;set;}
}

And serialize this wrapper object instead of just a list.