Quick question on deserializing

[cjard]

Suppose we have the XML:

<root>
  <ts>00:02</ts>
</root>

And the code:

[XmlRoot("root")] _
[Serializable]
Public Class Root
  Private TimeSpan ts = TimeSpan.FromHours(23) 'default
  [XmlElement("ts")]
  Public Property TS
    Get
      Return ts;
    End Get
    Set
      ts = value;
    End Set
  End Property
End Class

(maybe there's c# convention in there, please excuse)

Howcome the xml is parsed into a timespan of 0?

If I made the code read and write a string, then it picks up the string of 00:02 from the xml ok.. and I can parse this intoa timespan in my Set clause, but I'm wondering how i make the serializer generator parse the 00:02 into a timespan straight off the bat..

 

[cjard]

By-Design failure, specific to TimeSpan
http://www.devnewsgroups.net/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.framework/topic18670.aspx