How do you serialize a string as CDATA using XmlSerializer?

Is it possible via an attribute of some sort to serialize a string as CDATA using the .Net XmlSerializer?

[Serializable]
public class MyClass
{
    public MyClass() { }

    [XmlIgnore]
    public string MyString { get; set; }
    [XmlElement("MyString")]
    public System.Xml.XmlCDataSection MyStringCDATA
    {
        get
        {
            return new System.Xml.XmlDocument().CreateCDataSection(MyString);
        }
        set
        {
            MyString = value.Value;
        }
    }
}

Usage:

MyClass mc = new MyClass();
mc.MyString = "<test>Hello World</test>";
XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(MyClass));
StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
serializer.Serialize(writer, mc);
Console.WriteLine(writer.ToString());

Output:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<MyClass xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <MyString><![CDATA[<test>Hello World</test>]]></MyString>
</MyClass>

In addition to the way posted by John Saunders, you can use an XmlCDataSection as the type directly, although it boils down to nearly the same thing:

private string _message;
[XmlElement("CDataElement")]
public XmlCDataSection Message
{  
    get 
    { 
        XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
        return doc.CreateCDataSection( _message);
    }
    set
    {
        _message = value.Value;
    }
}

[XmlRoot("root")]
public class Sample1Xml
{
    internal Sample1Xml()
    {
    }

    [XmlElement("node")]
    public NodeType Node { get; set; }

    #region Nested type: NodeType

    public class NodeType
    {
        [XmlAttribute("attr1")]
        public string Attr1 { get; set; }

        [XmlAttribute("attr2")]
        public string Attr2 { get; set; }

        [XmlIgnore]
        public string Content { get; set; }

        [XmlText]
        public XmlNode[] CDataContent
        {
            get
            {
                var dummy = new XmlDocument();
                return new XmlNode[] {dummy.CreateCDataSection(Content)};
            }
            set
            {
                if (value == null)
                {
                    Content = null;
                    return;
                }

                if (value.Length != 1)
                {
                    throw new InvalidOperationException(
                        String.Format(
                            "Invalid array length {0}", value.Length));
                }

                Content = value[0].Value;
            }
        }
    }

    #endregion
}

In the class to be serialized:

public CData Content { get; set; }

And the CData class:

public class CData : IXmlSerializable
{
    private string _value;

    /// <summary>
    /// Allow direct assignment from string:
    /// CData cdata = "abc";
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="value">The string being cast to CData.</param>
    /// <returns>A CData object</returns>
    public static implicit operator CData(string value)
    {
        return new CData(value);
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Allow direct assignment to string:
    /// string str = cdata;
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="cdata">The CData being cast to a string</param>
    /// <returns>A string representation of the CData object</returns>
    public static implicit operator string(CData cdata)
    {
        return cdata._value;
    }

    public CData() : this(string.Empty)
    {
    }

    public CData(string value)
    {
        _value = value;
    }

    public override string ToString()
    {
        return _value;
    }

    public System.Xml.Schema.XmlSchema GetSchema()
    {
        return null;
    }

    public void ReadXml(System.Xml.XmlReader reader)
    {
        _value = reader.ReadElementString();
    }

    public void WriteXml(System.Xml.XmlWriter writer)
    {
        writer.WriteCData(_value);
    }
}