Attribute not getting Serialized

[Julia Beresford]

Hi

I have a c# class defined as follows:
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlTypeAttribute(Namespac e="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2003/01/wi")
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlRootAttribute(Namespac e="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2003/01/wi", IsNullable=false)]
public class Registry
{
/// <remarks/>
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlAttributeAttribute()]
public string Key;

/// <remarks/>
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlAttributeAttribute()]
public RegistryRoot Root;
}

When I serialize this class the Root attribute is not being serialized and
the Key attribute is! The above is just a snippet of the whole class
definition. The code to serialize the class I believe to be sound and I am
setting both the Key and Root properties to a valid value.

Can anyone help or at least give me ideas of where to start?

Many thanks

Julia Beresford

[Chris Lovett]

Perhaps the Root field was null. If you always want an attribute, that
sometimes has an empty value then "publish" a string property instead:

public string Root {
get { return (RootKey == null) ? string.Empty : RootKey.Name; }
set { RootKey = new RegistryRoot(value); }
}
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlIgnore()]
public RegistryRoot RootKey {
}
"Julia Beresford" <Ju************@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:8B**********************************@microsof t.com...

Hi

I have a c# class defined as follows:
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlTypeAttribute(Namespac e="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2003/01/wi")]
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlRootAttribute(Namespac e="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2003/01/wi",
IsNullable=false)]
public class Registry
{
/// <remarks/>
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlAttributeAttribute()]
public string Key;

/// <remarks/>
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlAttributeAttribute()]
public RegistryRoot Root;
}

When I serialize this class the Root attribute is not being serialized and
the Key attribute is! The above is just a snippet of the whole class
definition. The code to serialize the class I believe to be sound and I
am
setting both the Key and Root properties to a valid value.

Can anyone help or at least give me ideas of where to start?

Many thanks

Julia Beresford