If you use WCF to create web services, you need to define your data contracts by using DataContract/DataMember attributes.
Actually you can use them directly for serialization/deserialization in your code. Following is a sample of how to use DataContract/DataMember attributes for fast object Xml serialization and deserialization.
using System.IO;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml;
namespace DataContractSerialization
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Student student = new Student()
{
Age = 12,
Name = "David"
};
DataContractSerializer dcs = new DataContractSerializer(typeof(Student));
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
using(XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create(sb))
{
dcs.WriteObject(writer, student);
}
string xml = sb.ToString();
using (XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader(new StringReader(xml)))
{
Student newStudent = (Student) dcs.ReadObject(reader, true);
}
}
}
[DataContract(Namespace="http://www.netinverse.com")]
public class Student
{
[DataMember]
public string Name { get; set; }
[DataMember]
public int Age { get; set; }
}
}
