protected virtual void Entity2Xml(
	string rootNodeName,
	XmlWriter writer,
	Dictionary<Guid, IEntityCore> processedObjectIDs,
	XmlFormatAspect aspects,
	bool isRootElement,
	bool emitEntityType
)

Protected Overridable Sub Entity2Xml ( 
	rootNodeName As String,
	writer As XmlWriter,
	processedObjectIDs As Dictionary(Of Guid, IEntityCore),
	aspects As XmlFormatAspect,
	isRootElement As Boolean,
	emitEntityType As Boolean
)

Parameters

rootNodeName

Type: SystemString
name of root element to use when building a complete XML representation of this entity.

writer

Type: System.XmlXmlWriter
The writer to write the output to.

processedObjectIDs

Type: System.Collections.GenericDictionaryGuid, IEntityCore
Dictionary with ObjectIDs of all the objects already processed. If this entity's ObjectID is in the Dictionary's key list, a ProcessedObjectReference tag is emitted and the routine simply returns.

aspects

Type: SD.LLBLGen.Pro.ORMSupportClassesXmlFormatAspect
The aspect flags to control the format of the XML produced

isRootElement

Type: SystemBoolean
if set to true, the start element produced is the absolute root element of the xml to produce.

emitEntityType

Type: SystemBoolean
if set to true it will emit the entity type value in the root element as attribute.

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