Let’s say you have a C# (or VB.NET) project with namespace “MyProject” and you are trying to serialize a class named “MyClass” and you get the error message: There was an error reflecting type ‘MyProject.MyClass’.
The first thing to check, is that the class which you want to serialize (that save it to disk), contains the [Serializable] attribute.
First Thing to Check: The [Serializable] attribute
Example of proper usage of the [Serializable] attribute:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace MyProject
{
[Serializable]
public class MyClass
{
public string something;
//NOTE: Something else is still missing, see next example.
}
}
Even though however you include the [Serializable] attribute in your class as above, there is still something missing.
If you try to serialize the above class, you will still get the error message “There was an error reflecting type…”
Second Thing to Check: Is there a Default Constructor for your Class?
So what’s wrong and you still cannot serialize the class?
Well, the answer is quite simple: You need to include in in your class a default constructor, that is a constructor with no parameters.
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Code Example that Works
So, if we take the above code example and further modify it, our class will be successfully serialized to disk:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace MyProject
{
[Serializable]
public class MyClass
{
public string something;
//Default Constructor
public MyClass(){
}
}
}
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