C# serializing Class to XML where one of class properties is DateTime. How to make this property in ISO format?

Question

I'm serializing class which contains DateTime property.

public DateTime? Delivered { get; set; }

After serializing Delivered node contains DateTime formatted like this:

2008-11-20T00:00:00

How can I change this property to make it look like this:

2008-11-20 00:00:00

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

The hack I use for odd formatting during XmlSerialization is to have a special property that is only used during XmlSerialization

//normal DateTime accessor
[XmlIgnore]
public DateTime Delivered { get; set; }

//special XmlSerialization accessor
[XmlAttribute("DateTime")]
public string XmlDateTime
{
    get { return this.Delivered.ToString("o"); }
    set { this.Delivered = new DateTime.Parse(value); }
}

Answer 2

Take a look at XmlAttributeOverrides class.