Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer Buggy?

[~*McoreD*~]

Hi Guys,

Okay this is the weirdest thing happened to me. I am serializing a class and I can load & save settings most of the time. Some times Deserialization fails all of a sudden. When finding out the cause: I just saw it is adding irrelevant charactors to the file.

For example:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<mShowFileSize>true</mShowFileSize>
<mShowFilePath>true</mShowFilePath>
<mShowFolderPath>false</mShowFolderPath>
<mListType>Bullets</mListType>
<mCssFilePath>H:\Users\McoreD\My Documents\My Received Files\HotRod2.css</mCssFilePath>
<FolderList>
<anyType xsi:type="xsd:string">G:\Downloads</anyType>
<anyType xsi:type="xsd:string">G:\Uploads</anyType>
<anyType xsi:type="xsd:string">H:\eBooks</anyType>
<anyType xsi:type="xsd:string">F:\Movies</anyType>
<anyType xsi:type="xsd:string">G:\CORE</anyType>
<anyType xsi:type="xsd:string">F:\Music</anyType>
</FolderList>
<IndexFileName>index</IndexFileName>
<IndexFileExtension>.html</IndexFileExtension>
<isIndexFileInSameDir>true</isIndexFileInSameDir>
<isIndexFileInOneDir>true</isIndexFileInOneDir>
<isRemoveTreeBranches>false</isRemoveTreeBranches>
<isMergeFiles>true</isMergeFiles>
<isAscii>true</isAscii>
<isAddFiles>true</isAddFiles>
<OutputDir>G:\</OutputDir>
</Config>>

Notice the extra ">" here in the last line. This makes the deserialization fail on the next run.

Another time it was

</Config>Config>

Is this a bug in Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer? I am using Visual Basic 2005.
Has this happened to anybody else?

Thanks in advance.
McoreD

Just happnened again:
</Config>ig>