Decimal point removed from decimals in a Serialized XML

Question

I'm using XmlSerializer with classes created from a xsd using xsd.exe. It has worked fine for months.

Now I'm receiving reports that in some cases the created xml file has all decimals serialized without a decimal point, e.g. 123.45 is serialized as 12345.

I haven't been able to reproduce the problem, but I'm suspecting it may be related to localization.

This is my first C# project, so I may be overlooking something basic.

Could localization cause this problem?
How can I make the serialization process locale independent?

Any idea of something else that could cause this problem?

"I haven't been able to reproduce the problem" - that's your first step. — Mitch Wheat, Jan 03 '11 at 05:32
@mitch True. Tomorrow I'm going to visit the site where the problem is happening, but want to have ideas of what to look for. — MiguelM, Jan 03 '11 at 05:36

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 03 '11 at 07:57

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In some countries they use a comma as decimal separator, and the dot to separate thousands, so your hunch could be true. If you're using a float or another data type that holds decimals, XmlSerializer should not in any case throw away the decimals. However if in such a country you read The Xml without specifying a culture, it might ignore the dot.

So Xml serialized in one country and deserialized in another country would cause problems if you don't specify something like InvariantCulture.

answered Jan 03 '11 at 07:57

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Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. The "deserialization" part was actually some custom code reading values from a text file. There were some `.ToDecimal()` there, I added `InvariantCulture` and that seems to solve the problem in a quick test. – MiguelM Jan 03 '11 at 16:27

Decimal point removed from decimals in a Serialized XML

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