Exclude a property from serialization

Last week I had to serialize a class. The important thing was that I wanted to serialize all values except one. Most of the time I use the following construct:

	[Serializable]
	public class Product
	{
	[NonSerialized] //NonSerialized works on field values
	private int _id;
	public int Id
	{
	get{return _id;}
	set{_id=value;}
	}
	[NonSerialized] //NonSerialized does not work on properties
	public string Name{get;set;}
	}

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The [NonSerialized] attribute is only supported on field types, so I had to find another solution. As I was serializing to XML, I decided to use [XMLIgnore] as an alternative:

	public class Product
	{
	[XmlIgnore]
	public int Id{get;set;}
	[XmlIgnore]
	public string Name{get;set;}
	}

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