xml serialize instance of class

[John A Grandy]

I would like to xml serialize instances of a class solely for the purpose of
md5 hashing the result and naming data-files with the md5 hash so that there
is a 1:1 correspondence between a data-file and in instance of my class.

My class contains references to instances of other classes.

How would I go about implementing this ?

 

[Marc Gravell]

Well, what have you tried? XmlSerializer would be a good place to
start - msdn has samples on this:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.serialization.xmlserializer.aspx

From the title, it sounds like the main issue is the serialization
(not the MD5 stuff) - is there a specific question on this?

Marc

 

[John A Grandy]

I'm not having luck serializing public properties that return instances of
other classes, or strongly-types lists of instances of other classes.

How to achieve recursive serialization ?

 

[Marc Gravell]

What happens? Do you get an exception? Those types must also be
serializable. Note that XmlSerializer is a *tree* serializer; it won't
like recursive graphs. DataContractSerializer can support this, but
gives different layout.

Marc