Serializing DateTime to time without milliseconds and gmt

Question

I have created a C# class file by using a XSD-file as an input. One of my properties look like this:

 private System.DateTime timeField;

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Answer 1

You could create a string property that does the translation to/from your timeField field and put the serialization attribute on that instead the the real DateTime property that the rest of the application uses.

Answer 2

Put [XmlIgnore] on the Time property.

Then add a new property:

[XmlElement(DataType="string",ElementName="Time")]
public String TimeString
{
    get { return this.timeField.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd"); }
    set { this.timeField = DateTime.ParseExact(value, "yyyy-MM-dd", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture); }
}