How to prevent base class form being serialized

microsoft.public.dotnet.framework

3 Feb 2006 3:05 PM

tpenn

I have a class that is a control derived from UserControl. I want to use
serialization and deserialization with this calss but I get an exception
"Cannot serialize member System.ComponentModel.Component.Site of type
System.ComponentModel.ISite because it is an interface.".

I am not interested in serializing any member from the base class only the
properties in the derived class.

How can I prevent the entire base class from being serialized?

Code snippet

public partial class UserControl1 : UserControl
    {
        private int item1;
        private string item2;

        public UserControl1()
        {

        }

        public int Item1
        {
            get {return item1;}
            set {item1 = value;}
        }

        public string Item2
        {
            get { return item2; }
            set { item2 = value; }
        }
    }

public partial class Form1 : Form
{
    private UserControl1 Uctrl1;
    .
    .
    .
    Uctrl1 = new UserControl1();
      Uctrl1.Item1 = 3;
      Uctrl1.Item2 = "This is a test";

    .
    .
    .
      XmlSerializer mySerializer = new     XmlSerializer(typeof(UserControl1));
      // To write to a file, create a StreamWriter object.
      StreamWriter myWriter = new StreamWriter("myFileName.xml");
      mySerializer.Serialize(myWriter, Uctrl1);
       myWriter.Close();
}