How to serialize byte array to XML using XmlSerializer in C#?

Question

Say we have a struct that it\'s data is provided by un-managed byte array using Marshal.PtrToStructure.

The C# struct layout:

[StructLayout(LayoutKin         


        

Answer 1

I got this to work using the following:

  public class MySerializableClass
  {   
    [XmlIgnore]
    public string NaughtyXmlCharactersAsString { get; set; }

    [XmlElement(ElementName = "NaughtyXmlCharacters", DataType = "hexBinary")]
    public byte[] NaughtyXmlCharactersAsBytes
    {
        get { return Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(NaughtyCharactersAsString ?? string.Empty); }
        set { NaughtyXmlCharactersAsString = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(value); }
    }

I would then only access the "AsString" version of the property.