November 10, 2005

Revisiting Heterogeneous Containers

November 10, 2005 5:11 pm

ive years ago, I explained how to simulate heterogeneous containers by storing raw pointers to polymorphic objects in an STL container. C++ has come along way since: tuples now allow you store arbitrary types in one object. Alternatively, you can replace the raw pointers with shared_ptr. And yet, a heterogeneous

Customizing XML Serialization in .NET 2.0 Using the IXmlSerializable Interface

November 10, 2005 8:11 am

n .NET 2.0, Microsoft has exposed the methods of the IXmlSerializable interface, giving you far more control over the way your objects get serialized to XML than in previous versions. Implementing IXmlSerializable in your own classes gives you explicit control over the XML schema as well as fine-grained control of