Hi,

I am serializing an entitiy collection to Xml,

If MaintExpHouse.ContainsDirtyContents Then
                Dim writer As New StreamWriter("MainExpHouse.XML")
                Dim customerXml As String = String.Empty
                MaintExpHouse.WriteXml( _
XmlFormatAspect.Compact Or XmlFormatAspect.DatesInXmlDataType Or XmlFormatAspect.MLTextInCDataBlocks, customerXml)

                writer.Write(customerXml)
                writer.Close()
            End If

The entity been written is a matrix of 200 rows x 8 columns. This never grows in length only the content is edited.

The initial produced Xml file is about 300kb.

After a few more saves, the Xml file in a short time raplidy grows. One test I done was, after 10 saves this file was now 22mb.

What appears to be appended to the end of the XML file is these lines

<ProcessedObjectReference ObjectID="59c82c3b-4e72-459e-8fe2-c7085ff6b949" />

Is there a way to prevent this rapid growth ? or suppress these line being written to the file.

Again the matrix is not growing in size between these saves.

PS I am using this code to read the Xml back into the entity.

  Dim reader As New StreamReader("MaintInternal.XML")
            Dim xmlFromFile As String = reader.ReadToEnd()
            reader.Close()
            Me.MaintInternal.ReadXml(xmlFromFile)
            Me.dgMaint.DataSource = MaintInternal

Thanks,

Sean

Most probably there are entities added as references associated to your entity. Those lines are references to other entities not yet processed (cyclic references) Please check the xml after 1 save and see if something new is added. Thanks.

Thanks Walaa

Yes 1 save did not produce the added Xml tags.

I found a more efficient way to instantiate the entity collections and it all works fine.

I was using the same collection between different Xml read and writes. Now I instantiate a new collection prior to every read.

Sean