"Bradley Plett" <plettb@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I have a relatively simple xsd which I am turning into a class using
> "xsd.exe". I then create a collection of these classes. I have run
> into one minor problem. When serializing my collection, I would like
> the names of the elements to be different from the class name as
> generated by xsd.exe. I don't want to change the class name itself,
> due to naming conventions. This is trivial to do after-the-fact by
> adding the "XmlType" tag to the signature of the class. However, when
> I regenerate from the xsd, the tag disappears. Is there some way of
> putting the "XmlType" information into the xsd so that xsd.exe
> maintains it? Alternatively, is there an easy way to rename the
> elements when serializing?
>
> Thanks!
> Brad.

<yanl@online.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Following is a detailed description on how to do that:
>
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemxmlserializationxmlattributeoverridesclasstopic.asp
>
>"Bradley Plett" <plettb@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:2l32c0tj4flkflebk4girge9889dd3o430@4ax.com...
>
>>I have a relatively simple xsd which I am turning into a class using
>> "xsd.exe". I then create a collection of these classes. I have run
>> into one minor problem. When serializing my collection, I would like
>> the names of the elements to be different from the class name as
>> generated by xsd.exe. I don't want to change the class name itself,
>> due to naming conventions. This is trivial to do after-the-fact by
>> adding the "XmlType" tag to the signature of the class. However, when
>> I regenerate from the xsd, the tag disappears. Is there some way of
>> putting the "XmlType" information into the xsd so that xsd.exe
>> maintains it? Alternatively, is there an easy way to rename the
>> elements when serializing?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Brad.
>