Element Order in Serialized Class

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"Tom Kiernan" <TomKiernan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a class written in C# that generally serializes fine. The issue
>that
> I have is that I need to be able to submit the serialized data to another
> system and that system seems to be very sensitive to the order of the
> elements.
>
> Is there any way to force the classes within the main (root) class to be
> in
> a certain order. When I serialize it, the order actually seems sort of
> random as it doesn't seem to matter which class is defined first in the
> source file or instantiated first, etc.
>
> As background, I create the class and member classes and fill in the
> appropriate data. I then create an XMLSerializer object and use the
> Serialize method.
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
>
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