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I've been looking for some example like this for a while now, it's great.

But I have a question about some error I got.

Using the normal serialization (without overriding the IXmlSerializable interface functions) you are able to add attributes to fields, for example:

<XmlElement("DESCRIPTION")> _
Public Desc As String

And that works fine.  It checks the attribute and when it exports the class to XML, Desc is written as DESCRIPTION.

After I implement IXmlSerializable , I get a  run time error saying I can't have attributes on members.  Why is that?

Also, I did not include the [Serializable] attribute for my class, and it still worked for me.  What is the purpose of [Serializable] attribute?

Thanks for any input