<p>Is there a way for me to serialize an object in .NET without the XML Namespaces automatically serializing also?  It seems that by default .NET believes the XSI and XSD namespaces should be included, but I don't want them there.</p>

Ahh... nevermind.  It's always the search after the question is posed that yields the answer.  My object that is being serialized is
```
obj
```
and has already been defined.  Adding an XMLSerializerNamespace with a single empty namespace to the collection does the trick.
In VB like this:
```
```
Dim xs As New XmlSerializer(GetType(cEmploymentDetail))
Dim ns As New XmlSerializerNamespaces()
ns.Add("", "")

Dim settings As New XmlWriterSettings()
settings.OmitXmlDeclaration = True

Using ms As New MemoryStream(), _
    sw As XmlWriter = XmlWriter.Create(ms, settings), _
    sr As New StreamReader(ms)
    xs.Serialize(sw, obj, ns)
    ms.Position = 0
    Console.WriteLine(sr.ReadToEnd())
End Using
```
```
in C# like this:
```
```
//Create our own namespaces for the output
XmlSerializerNamespaces ns = new XmlSerializerNamespaces();

//Add an empty namespace and empty value
ns.Add("", "");

//Create the serializer
XmlSerializer slz = new XmlSerializer(someType);

//Serialize the object with our own namespaces (notice the overload)
slz.Serialize(myXmlTextWriter, someObject, ns);
```
```