Deserialize empty XML element as Guid.Empty

Question

I have some troubles with deserializing.

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Answer 1

Null is not the same as Guid.Empty. In the JSON serializer, you denote null using an empty string.

If you serialize your class using XmlSerializer you'll see it uses xsi:nil="true" to denote a null value.

For example: