Xml Serialization vs. “True” and “False”

Question

I\'m having an issue with deserializing an XML file with boolean values. The source XML files I\'m deserializing were created from a VB6 app, where all boolean values are c

Answer 1

I stumbled upon the same issue, and based on the answer by jman, I solved it this way:

    [XmlIgnore]
    public bool BadBoolField { get; set; }

    [XmlAttribute("badBoolField")]
    public string BadBoolFieldSerializable
    {
        get
        {
            return this.BadBoolField.ToString();
        }
        set
        {
            this.BadBoolField= Convert.ToBoolean(value);
        }
    }

Be aware this is not necessarily by XML / Serialization specification, but it works good and it can handle a widespread conversion values (i.e. string like "True", "true", if you would replace the constraint of being a string it could handle numbers as well).