Mixing custom and basic serialization?

Question

I\'ve got a class with well over 100 properties (it\'s a database mapping class) and one of the properties has to be in a method. In other words this data is not exposed via a p

Answer 1

The first thing I'd try is adding a property for serialization, but hiding it from the UI:

[Browsable(false)] // hide in UI
public SomeType ABC {
    get {return GetABC();}
    set {SetABC(value);}
}

You can't really mix and match serialization unfortunately; once you implement IXmlSerializable, you own everything. If you were using WCF, then DataContractSerialier supports non-public properties for serialization, so you could use:

[DataMember]
private SomeType ABC {
    get {return GetABC();}
    set {SetABC(value);}
}

but this doesn't apply for "asmx" web-services via XmlSerializer.

Does the [Browsable] trick work at all? Assuming the custom grid uses TypeDescriptor, another option might be to hide it via ICustomTypeDescriptor, but that is a lot of work just to hide a property...