In the past, I've done the following to control datetime serialization:
- Ignore the DateTime property.
- Create a dummy string property that serializes/deserializes the way I want
Here is an example:
public class SomeClass
{
[XmlIgnore]
public DateTime SomeDate { get; set; }
[XmlElement("SomeDate")]
public string SomeDateString
{
get { return this.SomeDate.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"); }
set { this.SomeDate = DateTime.Parse(value); }
}
}