[RESOLVED] XML with Attributes

[teguh123]

Say I have a class

Class Business
Name as string
end Class

The XML will be

<Business>
<Name>Hello World</Name>
</Business>

What about if I want that to be

<Business Name="Hello World" /> instead

How would I do so?

[techgnome]

you need to use the XMLAttribute markup on the property....

Imports System.Xml.Serialization

<Serializable()> _
Public Class Business

    Private _name As String

    <XmlAttribute()> _
    Public Property Name() As String
        Get
            Return _name
        End Get
        Set(ByVal value As String)
            _name = value
        End Set
    End Property


End Class

-tg

[teguh123]

Where can I see more documentation on this?

Yes I googled and bing the whole thing:

This

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...attribute.aspx

doesn't look like it.

[techgnome]

yeah, no that's not it.....

try the OTHER namespace:
System.Xml.Serialization


or xml.serialization.xmlattribute ... the one you found was for the xml dom....
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...attribute.aspx
Yeah... the search is great, but sometimes you jsut gotta know exactly how to search what you're looking for.

Hope it helps.

-tg