Rename DataMember during Serialization

Question

I am trying to serialise a DataContract..... I would like to Rename the DataMember.

This is my DataContract

[DataContract(Name = "Sample")]
[Serializable]
public struct Sample
{

        public string CompanyName;


        public string AddressLine;

        [DataMember(Name="AddressLineRename")]
        public string AddressLine2;

        public string City; 

}

it is serialised to:

<Sample>
  <CompanyName>aaa</CompanyName> 
  <AddressLine>16 aaaa</AddressLine> 
  <AddressLine2>Unit 66</AddressLine2> 
  <City>Houston</City> 
</Sample>

what i need is:

<Sample>
  <CompanyName>aaa</CompanyName> 
  <AddressLine>16 aaaa</AddressLine> 
  <AddressLineRename>Unit 66</AddressLineRename> 
  <City>Houston</City> 
</Sample>

I want the "AddressLine2" to be serialised to "AddressLineRename".

Thanks.

Answer 1

This solved to rename the DataMember.

  [DataMember(Order = 2, Name = "AddressLineRename", IsRequired = true)]
  [XmlElement("AddressLineRename")]
  public string AddressLine2; 

Answer 2

You may need to implement ISerializable to customize the serialization process yourself.

I think the code you would need to add would look something like:

public Sample(SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context)
{
    CompanyName = info.GetString("CompanyName");
    // ...
    AddressLine2 = info.GetString("AddressLineRename");
    // ...
}

public void GetObjectData(SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context)
{
    info.AddValue("CompanyName", CompanyName);
    // ...
    info.AddValue("AddressLineRename", AddressLine2);
    // ...
}

See the MSDN for ISerializable.

Answer 3

In my case I solved just adding the order parameter to DataMember

 [DataMember(Order = 2, Name = "AddressLineRename")]
 public string AddressLine2; 

Don't know why..