Serializing a class to XML including attributes?

No, basically. Unless you expose a regular property that provides them, or implement IXmlSerializable The intent of serialization is to serialize an individual object's properties; attributes are metadata annotations, that are not really associated with any specific instance. As such, they don't naturally fit into object serialization, except perhaps (as metadata) to guide it (for example XmlTypeAttribute XmlRootAttribute etc).

No, basically. Unless you expose a regular property that provides them, or implement IXmlSerializable. The intent of serialization is to serialize an individual object's properties; attributes are metadata annotations, that are not really associated with any specific instance.As such, they don't naturally fit into object serialization, except perhaps (as metadata) to guide it (for example XmlTypeAttribute, XmlRootAttribute, etc).

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