XmlElementAttribute.Type Property

Definition

Gets or sets the object type used to represent the XML element.

public Type Type { get; set; }
public Type? Type { get; set; }

Property Value

The Type of the member.

Examples

The following example uses the Type property to specify a derived object for an XmlElementAttribute. The example also applies three instances of the XmlElementAttribute to a field that returns an ArrayList. Each instance specifies a type allowed in the field.

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Serialization;

public class Group
{
   [XmlElement(typeof(Manager))]
   public Employee [] Staff;

   [XmlElement (typeof(int)),
   XmlElement (typeof(string)),
   XmlElement (typeof(DateTime))]
   public ArrayList ExtraInfo;
}

public class Employee
{
   public string Name;
}

public class Manager:Employee
{
   public int Level;
}

public class Run
{
   public static void Main()
   {
      Run test = new Run();
      test.SerializeObject("TypeEx.xml");
   }

   public void SerializeObject(string filename)
   {
      // Create an XmlSerializer instance.
      XmlSerializer xSer =
      new XmlSerializer(typeof(Group));

      // Create object and serialize it.
      Group myGroup = new Group();

      Manager e1 = new Manager();
      e1.Name = "Manager1";
      Manager m1 =  new Manager();
      m1.Name = "Manager2";
      m1.Level = 4;

      Employee[] emps = {e1, m1};
      myGroup.Staff = emps;

      myGroup.ExtraInfo = new ArrayList();
      myGroup.ExtraInfo.Add(".NET");
      myGroup.ExtraInfo.Add(42);
      myGroup.ExtraInfo.Add(new DateTime(2001,1,1));

      TextWriter writer = new StreamWriter(filename);
      xSer.Serialize(writer, myGroup);
      writer.Close();
   }
}

Remarks

Use the Type property to specify a derived type for a field or property.

If a field or property returns an ArrayList, you can apply multiple instances of the XmlElementAttribute to the member. For each instance, set the Type property to a type of object that can be inserted into the array.

Applies to

Prodotto Versioni
.NET Core 1.0, Core 1.1, Core 2.0, Core 2.1, Core 2.2, Core 3.0, Core 3.1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
.NET Framework 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.8, 4.8.1
.NET Standard 2.0, 2.1
UWP 10.0