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I am serializing an object into XML.

consider class

public class EmpInfo
{
    public string Code;
    public string FirstName;
    public string LastName;
    public string Designation;
    public int Salary;
}

If I don't provide salary then it is by default set as 0 I don't want default values to be set.

In case of Designation, if I don't provide then value is automatically NULL. That tag is not included in XML.

How should I omit the Salary tag if Salary is not provided?

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Try nullable int. public int? Salary; –  I4V Jul 18 '13 at 13:26
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One way would be to implement IXmlSerializable. Another method might be to have the int Salary be ignored in the XML always and have a string SalarySerialized wrapper which does conversion. If the value is 0 it returns null, any other number it returns the string representation. EDIT: Oh fine l4V, give a better suggestion why don't you! –  Chris Sinclair Jul 18 '13 at 13:26
    
Regarding the nullable case, it seems that it will still include the tag when null; it outputs an element "<Salary xsi:nil="true" />" –  Chris Sinclair Jul 18 '13 at 13:29
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I think this is the answer you are looking for : stackoverflow.com/questions/244953/serialize-a-nullable-int/… –  Mechanical Object Jul 18 '13 at 13:49
    
See example [this][1], is basic example or [this][2]. [1]: stackoverflow.com/questions/4146804/xml-serialization-c-sharp [2]: stackoverflow.com/questions/8722126/… –  Andrei Chitu Jul 18 '13 at 14:17
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