Serializing an enum variable

[Pedro]

Hello,

Here's a piece of code that i have which is giving me an error and im not
sure how to fix it.
I'm trying to serialize an enum variable wich a value outside of the enum
list and the serializer throws an error saying its an invalid value (of
course). But how toget around it?

Public Class foo

Public Enum Nums
Zero = 0
One = 1
Two = 2
Four = 4
End Enum

Public MyNum = Two Or Four (this would result on a number 6)

End Class

I would like to be able to serialize the number, not so much the actual
text.
I've tried <xmlInclude(gettype(Integer)> but it says that primitive types
are not allowed.


Any ideas?


Thanks

 

[Nicole Calinoiu]

Have you tried applying FlagsAttribute
(http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-US/library/system.flagsattribute.aspx) to the
enum?

 

[Pedro]

Thanks alot for the help Nicole

The result im getting is now the XML containing the actual names
resulting in:

<Nums>Two Four</Nums>

So i'm getting the actual enum names space separated.
What I would like is the actual number instead for AND bitwising.
I dont suppose you know how to do this?


Thanks
Pedro

 

[Nicole Calinoiu]

If you want to render the bitwise ORed result, your best bet would
presumably be to expose that result cast to an integer (or whatever your
enum's underlying type might be). One can control the rendered value for an
enum using XmlEnumAttribute, but that won't change the rendering of separate
values for a flags enum.