What new feature(s) would you like to see in the add-in? Post your suggestions here.
12/14/2010 2:04:05 AM
jeremyholt
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Hi,
I have suddenly realized that I need to make a number of the entities in my dbml [Serializable]. All of the entities have a Binary TimeStamp field, for which I need to provide the XmlIgnoreAttribute (you can't serialize a Linq.Binary type). At the moment, the only way I can see of doing this is manually copying the fields from the designer.cs to the partial code behind and adding the attribute there.
It would be great if it were possible for the DBML/EDMX to have an option to "automagically" mark Binary fields as XmlIgnore.
Regards
Jeremy
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12/14/2010 5:01:44 AM
Kristofer Andersson
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Hi Jeremy,
Depending on why you need to serialize the entities, a better option might be to use the DataContractSerializer. It can serialize and deserialize System.Data.Linq.Binary and is in general more suitable for serializing and deserializing individual entities as well as entire object graphs. Simply change the serialization mode property in the L2S designer from None to Unidirectional and your entity classes will be tagged up with the attributes needed to use the DataContractSerializer.
Best regards,
Kristofer
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