'xsd.exe' generated classes and the Serializable attribute

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Matt Holmes - 14 Oct 2004 20:25 GMT

Is there anyway to get 'xsd.exe' to mark the class hierarchy it generates
with the [Serializable] attribute? I need to be able to serialize the class
hierarchy as both XML and a byte stream and I don't have the luxury of hand
editing the generated file (it is regenerated as part of my pre-build step,
because I makes quite a few changes during the initial stages of the
project). I don't want to have to copy the data to a special serializable
proxy, thats a total waste of effort and defeats the purpose of using
'xsd.exe' to generate my hierarchy anyway.

Anyone know of a work around for this?

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Dino Chiesa [Microsoft] - 26 Oct 2004 17:16 GMT

sed.exe -
can edit a generated file from the command line or from a build step.

I do this all the time from within makefiles to tweak generated files.

> Is there anyway to get 'xsd.exe' to mark the class hierarchy it generates
> with the [Serializable] attribute? I need to be able to serialize the
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> Anyone know of a work around for this?

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Mujtaba Syed - 03 Nov 2004 21:24 GMT

Hi Matt:

Since you have converted a schema to a class definition using XSD.EXE, you
should use the XmlSerializer framework!

Thanks.
Mujtaba Syed.

> Is there anyway to get 'xsd.exe' to mark the class hierarchy it generates
> with the [Serializable] attribute? I need to be able to serialize the class
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> Anyone know of a work around for this?

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