C＃不要序列化继承的类

Question

I have a class that keeps certain data (for a game editor), for its use in my program it must inherit the class System.Windows.Controls.Image .

The class looks like this:

public class GameObjectInstance : Image
{
    public string InstanceName { get; set; }
    public string ObjectX { get; set; }
    public string ObjectY { get; set; }
    ...
}

Image must be inherited because I must draw the GameObjectInstance on a Canvas to display the image but I must also retain the specific GameObjectInstance data.

My program must save a number of these GameObjectInstance classes to files somewhere. I am trying to do this via serialization, and I have discovered that the XmlSerializer doesn't support this. I have also tried serializing using the BinaryFormatter but that does not work either.

How can I serialize so that I ignore the inherited properties (I don't need their data saved)?

Answer 1

Don't inherit from image but rather define a property of type Image in your class. Use [XmlIgnore] to mark the properties that you do not want to serialize.