Is there a way to serialize just Annotations?

Hi Kelias,

All annotations implement IXmlSerializable so its possible to loop over the annotation collection and serialize them. Here’s a quick code sample of how to do that in C#

        // Serialize single annotation
        var ann = new TextAnnotation();

        var stream = new MemoryStream();
        var serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(TextAnnotation));
        serializer.Serialize(stream, ann);

        // Serialize AnnotationCollection
        stream = new MemoryStream();
        var annCollection = new AnnotationCollection()
        {
            new TextAnnotation(),
            new BoxAnnotation(),
        };
        serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(AnnotationCollection));
        serializer.Serialize(stream, ann);

Does that help?

Best regards,
Andrew