I have seen numerous blog and newsgroup posts about how XmlSerialization and ASMX WebServices serialize DateTime in v1.0 and v1.1 of the framework. Well, I have some good news, bad news and good bad news for you. Good news: We fixed it. Bad news: If you worked around it then you might be broken...

Now that I have your attention... We are seriously considering deprecating the SoapFormatter in .NET Framework 2.0. It is the nexus of a whole host of serialization issues and implies a promise of interop that it does not and will not live up to. It also does not support generics. Additionally, those...