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

This is how I did it:

public class MySerializableClass
{
    private string dummy;

    [XmlElement("NaughtyXmlCharacters")]
    public string NaughtyXmlCharactersAsString
    {
       get 
       {
           return BitConverter.ToString(NaughtyXmlCharacters);
       }
       set
       {
           // without this, the property is not serialized.
           dummy = value;
       }
    }

    [XmlIgnore]
    public byte[] NaughtyXmlCharacters
    {
        get;
        set;
    }
}

The bytes are then formatted as hexadecimal values and separated with a minus sign: 00-AF-B1