Xml Serialization vs. "True" and "False"

Question

I'm having an issue with deserializing an XML file with boolean values. The source XML files I'm deserializing were created from a VB6 app, where all boolean values are capitalized (True, False). When I try to deserialize the XML, I'm getting a

System.FormatException: The string 'False' is not a valid Boolean value.

Is there a way to say ignore case with an attribute?

Answer 1

Based on another stack overflow question you can do:

public class MySerilizedObject
{
    [XmlIgnore]
    public bool BadBoolField { get; set; }

    [XmlElement("BadBoolField")]
    public string BadBoolFieldSerialize
    {
        get { return this.BadBoolField ? "True" : "False"; }
        set
        {
            if(value.Equals("True"))
                this.BadBoolField = true;
            else if(value.Equals("False"))
                this.BadBoolField = false;
            else
                this.BadBoolField = XmlConvert.ToBoolean(value);
        }
    }
}