I have a function below that is used to serialize an object without adding an XML declaration. I just opened a project that contains it in Visual Studio 2012, and the warning “CA2202: do not delete objects multiple times” appears in Code Analysis.
Now in other cases, I fixed this warning by deleting the [object] .Close, which is not needed, but in this case I do not see what needs to be changed, and the help for the warning , being accurate, is not entirely informative as to how it is called or how to fix it.
What exactly causes a warning to be displayed and how can I reorganize it to avoid?
''' <summary>
''' Serialize an object without adding the XML declaration, etc.
''' </summary>
''' <param name="target"></param>
''' <returns></returns>
''' <remarks></remarks>
Public Shared Function SerializeElementToText(Of T As New)(target As T) As String
Dim serializer As New XmlSerializer(GetType(T))
'Need to serialize without namespaces to keep it clean and tidy
Dim emptyNS As New XmlSerializerNamespaces({XmlQualifiedName.Empty})
'Need to remove xml declaration as we will use this as part of a larger xml file
Dim settings As New XmlWriterSettings()
settings.OmitXmlDeclaration = True
settings.NewLineHandling = NewLineHandling.Entitize
settings.Indent = True
settings.IndentChars = (ControlChars.Tab)
Using stream As New StringWriter(), writer As XmlWriter = XmlWriter.Create(stream, settings)
'Serialize the item to the stream using the namespace supplied
serializer.Serialize(writer, target, emptyNS)
'Read the stream and return it as a string
Return stream.ToString
End Using 'Warning jumps to this line
End Function
I tried this, but it does not work either:
Using stream As New StringWriter()
Using writer As XmlWriter = XmlWriter.Create(stream, settings)
serializer.Serialize(writer, target, emptyNS)
Return stream.ToString
End Using
End Using 'Warning jumps to this line instead