Sorted xml element while serialising

Soundman32 2

I am using c# serialisation to write some xml. For some reason the output is not necessarily written in the order it appears in the code. How can I order the elements? For example:

[Serializable]
public class Request
{
[XmlElement("Type")]
public string Type
{
get;
set;
}

[XmlElement("Id")]
public int Id
{
get;
set;
}
}

Would write

(Note this example is very simplified and doesn't actually write it wrongly).

Soundman32 2

Fixed it. It turns out, fields are serialised before properties and my code was actually like this:

[Serializable]
public class Request
{
[XmlElement("Type")]
public string Type
{
get;
set;
}

[XmlElement("Id")]
public int Id; // <<<--- Note this is a field, not a property
}