Object XmlSerialization with protected property setters

Question

Here is my object

    [Serializable()]
    public class PersistentObject
    {
        public virtual int ID {
            get { return id; }
            protec         


        

Answer 1

Even though it doesn't directly answer your question, note that you can serialize properties with an internal setter. To do that, you need to pre-generate the XML serialization assembly with Sgen.exe, and declare that assembly as "friend" using the InternalsVisibleTo attribute :

[assembly:InternalsVisibleTo("MyAssembly.XmlSerializers")]