Set The “NonSerializedAttribute” To An Auto Property

Question

This cannot be done in C#. Any way to do it?

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laugh, in case my little pun wasn\'t understood, what I mean is: how can I mark a property in C# as Non

Answer 1

Edit * : Auto Implemented Properties are backed by an anonymous field which you don't really have access to, attributes are designed to be controlled by a reflection based mechanism. These fields cannot be referenced by the reflection mechanism (because they are anonymous). This compiler feature would require a lot of changes to the generation of auto-properties... It would also require that the compiler treat auto-properties as fields for the purpose of marking field attributes onto them.

To answer the more fundamental part of the question - your point was that Auto-Properties are serialized and so there should be a way to control their serialization. You're right - but auto properties are meant as a shorthand and were never designed to give you the full flexibility, but rather to allow you to easily extend their functionality the "long" way if you ever needed it.

• I added the more details answer from my comments to the body of the answer.