Serialization PhoneApplicationPage Windows Phone - windows-phone-7

i hace a class named "Conexion" an i keep all the info of my app there, what i want its to save the object of the class to a file when the user presses the windows key, but the app crashes because it says the obect "delegado" has a problem reflecting his type. The type of this object is "PhoneApplicationPage" , it seems it cannot be serialized. The object keeps track of what page did the request.
so im requesting your help to see if theres a solution, that doesn make me redo the app, because i dont have time.
heres the code of the methods i use to save and load the data.
public void save() {
IsolatedStorageFile storage = IsolatedStorageFile.GetUserStoreForApplication();
IsolatedStorageFileStream stream = storage.CreateFile(fileName);
DateTime currTime = DateTime.Now;
this.timeOff = currTime.ToString();
XmlSerializer xml = new XmlSerializer(this.GetType());
xml.Serialize(stream, this);
stream.Close();
stream.Dispose();
}
public Conexion load() {
IsolatedStorageFile storage = IsolatedStorageFile.GetUserStoreForApplication();
Conexion conn;
if (storage.FileExists(fileName))
{
IsolatedStorageFileStream stream = storage.OpenFile(fileName, System.IO.FileMode.Open);
XmlSerializer xml = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Conexion));
conn = xml.Deserialize(stream) as Conexion;
stream.Close();
DateTime currTime = DateTime.Now;
DateTime checkTime = DateTime.Parse(timeOff).AddMinutes(lapso);
if (DateTime.Compare(checkTime, currTime) >= 0)
{
Console.WriteLine("sesion valida");
}
else {
conn.reseteaSingletonConexion();
}
stream.Dispose();
}
else
{
conn= new Conexion();
}
return conn;
}
thanks in advance
Edit:
Well ignoring the object "delegado" stopped the app from crashing, but now , when i load the info , the object cannot be deserialized , it seems it marks 2 details in the same error:
There is an error in XML document (2, 2).
Conexion cannot be serialized because it does not have a parameterless constructor.
but the class does have a parameterless constructor.
any idea?

You could use the [XmlIgnore] attribute against the objects that won't serialize (chances are you don't want to serialize the entire XAML page.
Place this attribute above a property in your Conexion class. Eg,
public class Conexion
{
public string MyPropertyToSerialize { get;set; }
[XmlIgnore]
public string MyPropertyToIgnore { get;set; }
}
Hope that helps.

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{
try
{
if (_fileContents.ContainsKey(guid))
{
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{
result.Content = new StreamContent(stream);
result.Content.Headers.ContentType =
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result.Content.Headers.ContentDisposition =
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return Ok(result);
}
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return NotFound();
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
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public class CopyNotes : CodeActivity
{
protected override void Execute(CodeActivityContext executionContext)
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{
foreach (Entity e in copyFromNotes.Entities)
{
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Andreas

LINQ-To-Sharepoint Multiple content types for a single list

I'm using SPMetal in order to generate entity classes for my sharepoint site and I'm not exactly sure what the best practice is to use when there are multiple content types for a single list. For instance I have a task list that contains 2 content types and I'm defining them via the config file for SPMetal. Here is my definition...
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This seems to work pretty well in that the generated objects do inherit from WorkflowTask but the generated type for the data context is a List of WorkflowTask. So when I do a query I get back a WorkflowTask object instead of a LegalReview or Approval object. How do I make it return an object of the correct type?
[Microsoft.SharePoint.Linq.ListAttribute(Name="Tasks")]
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get {
return this.GetList<WorkflowTask>("Tasks");
}
}
UPDATE
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set{ //set to list item};
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{
private SPListItem _SPListItem;
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{
get { return _SPListItem; }
set { _SPListItem = value; }
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public string ContentTypeId { get; internal set; }
public DateTime Modified { get; internal set; }
public virtual void MapFrom(object listItem)
{
SPListItem item = (SPListItem)listItem;
this.SPListItem = item;
this.ContentTypeId = item.ContentTypeId.ToString();
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public virtual void MapTo(object listItem)
{
SPListItem item = (SPListItem)listItem;
item["Modified"] = this.Modified == DateTime.MinValue ? this.Modified = DateTime.Now : this.Modified;
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public virtual void Resolve(RefreshMode mode, object originalListItem, object databaseObject)
{
SPListItem originalItem = (SPListItem)originalListItem;
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asp.net mvc ObjectDisposedException with ef

I need some help with this error "The ObjectContext instance has been disposed and can no longer be used for operations that require a connection."
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Here is the razor with two dropdowns:
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something like that anyways :)
I ran into a similar problem. I had been following this pattern, which I had seen in many code examples on the web:
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However, this was causing the ObjectDisposedException listed above whenever I tried to access anything that hadn't been loaded into memory in the View code (in particular, one-to-many relationships in the main view model).
I found a different pattern in this example:
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{
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return View(thing);
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{
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}
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#region IClientMessageInspector Members
public void AfterReceiveReply( ref Message reply, object correlationState )
{
// Nothing to do
}
public object BeforeSendRequest( ref Message request, IClientChannel channel )
{
var property = request.Properties[ HttpRequestMessageProperty.Name ] as HttpRequestMessageProperty;
if( property != null )
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}
#endregion // IClientMessageInspector Members
}
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{
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}
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{
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