C# serialize decimal to xml

Question

I got a decimal property, like

[XmlElementAttribute(DataType = \"decimal\")] decimal Price

The problem is that I wanna force it to serialize always

Answer 1

You could add XmlIgnore to the actual decimal property and introduce a new property PriceAsString which returns, eh, the price as string (in 10.50 format).

You could of course also implement IXmlSerializable and do everything yourself.

However, none of these ways really rocks, and you already stated you were not going to go down this road anyway...