C#

Ian Shlasko wrote:

Annoying stuff you wouldn't want to see if you planned to edit it in notepad

Mark Nischalke wrote:

Well XML Serialization wasn't meant to produce human editable files anyway

Mark Nischalke wrote:

But yes, it all depends on the usage and in this case the OP would probably be better off with Binary Serialization, or some other method.

private void SerializeMyClass<T>(string file, T obj) 
{
  using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(file, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.Write))
  {
    new BinaryFormatter().Serialize(fs, obj);
  }
}

private T Deserialize<T>(string file)
{
  using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(file, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read))
  {
    IFormatter formatter = new BinaryFormatter();
    return (T)formatter.Deserialize(fs, obj);
  }
}

public XElement XElement
{
    get
    {
        XElement value = new XElement("Item",
                                      new XElement("Property1, property));
        return value;
    }
    set
    {
        if (value != null)
        {
            property = GetValue("Property1", defaultValue);
        }
    }
}

public MyItem(XElement value)
{
    this.XElement = value;
}