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{ Monthly Archives } March 2009

Quick and dirty way to serialize an object to XML and back

A lot of time I just want to quickly look at how an object graph will be serialized to XML. I end up writing quick and dirty code like below time after time since I cannot find the code snippet I had written a while back. I am documenting it here so I do not […]

2009 03 01 Jalil Vaidya .NET Framework
Serialization
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Getting declared type of a NulllableType variable

If the GetType method is called on a variable of NullableType then you will get the underlying type instead of the NullableType. This is because of boxing that occurs when the type object is converted to Object as documented at MSDN. So how do you get the declared type if you have a variable of […]

2009 03 01 Jalil Vaidya .NET Framework Comments Off on Getting declared type of a NulllableType variable