Remove empty xmlns created by serializer

Question

I have an object generated by an \"Add service reference...\" operation and I am manually serializing it with a generic serializer I wrote.

My problem is that the da

Answer 1

This might be a little off-topic and might not apply if you're using [DataContract]. Rather, this applies to proxy code generated from a WSDL (in an interop environment with a java endpoint, we've been told the xmlns="" is invalid). So I'm putting it out there in case it helps.

The XmlElementAttribute.Form property can cause xmlns="" to be output for child members in the WCF request when set to System.Xml.Schema.XmlSchemaForm.Unqualified.

[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute(Form=System.Xml.Schema.XmlSchemaForm.Unqualified)]
public string MyProperty {
     get; set;
}

which produces something along the lines of

   My value goes here

Setting it to System.Xml.Schema.XmlSchemaForm.None (which is the default value) means it won't output the "unqualified" namespace attribute.

[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute(Form=System.Xml.Schema.XmlSchemaForm.None)]
public string MyProperty {
    get; set;
}

which produces this:

   My value goes here

I'm not sure if you can change this behaviour while importing the wsdl reference, or perhaps the wsdl should have been changed, but I ended up editing the generated proxy code directly (which definitely isn't ideal), but achieved my immediate goal.