Serialize an Interface Class

[MarkMacrae]

Hi

Im trying to serialize an object to XML (c#) using the System.XMLSerializer but Im getting exceptions due to the class being an interface (see code snippet below).

string filename = @"C:\Mark\CODAAccount_" + myElement.Code + ".xml";
TextWriter tw = new StreamWriter(filename);
XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(codaElementClass));
serializer.Serialize(tw,myElement);

I have read that there are ways I can implement the ISerializable interface which will allow me to serialize my object, but can anyone help me with this and provide some example syntax??

Thanks
Mark

 

[PlausiblyDamp]

The XmlSerializer class needs to know about the class data structures to be able to serialze it - interfaces do not have any data fields and therefore it cannot use them to determine storage requirements.

If you are looking at implementing ISerializable yourself then this MSDN article is a good starting point.