Override XML Serialization Method

Question

I\'m having trouble trying to customize the way DateTime variables are serialized in my objects. I want it to be output as 2011-09-26T13:00:00Z but when I override the GetOb

Answer 1

I had a suggestion from @craighawker to format the DateTime into a string when calling a set() method for the DateTime. Seemed the simplest method although I would like to implement it the proper way using IXMLSerializable at some point in the future to do more powerful things

 public class gdEvent
    {
    [XmlAttribute(AttributeName = "startTime")]
    private string m_startTimeOutput;
    private DateTime m_startTime; //format 2011-11-02T09:00:00Z

    [XmlAttribute(AttributeName = "endTime")]
    private string m_endTimeOutput;
    private DateTime m_endTime; //2011-11-02T10:00:00Z

    public DateTime startTime
    {
        get
        {
        return m_startTime;
        }
        set
        {
        m_startTime = value;
        m_startTimeOutput = m_startTime.ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ");
        }
    }

    public DateTime endTime
    {
        get
        {
        return m_endTime;
        }
        set
        {
        m_endTime = value;
        m_endTimeOutput = m_endTime.ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ");
        }
    }