All of these assertions pass.

SerializingAutoProperties.cs

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;
using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;
using System.Xml.Serialization;

namespace ClassLibrary1
{
    [Serializable]
    public class SomethingSerialized
    {
        public string Name { get; set; }
    }

    public class Class1
    {
        public void BinarySerialization()
        {
            var before = new SomethingSerialized {Name = "bob"};
            var formatter = new BinaryFormatter();
            var stm = new MemoryStream();
            formatter.Serialize(stm, before);
            stm.Seek(0L, SeekOrigin.Begin);
            var after = (SomethingSerialized) formatter.Deserialize(stm);
            Debug.Assert(after.Name == before.Name);
        }

        public void XmlSerialization()
        {
            var before = new SomethingSerialized {Name = "bob"};
            var serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(SomethingSerialized));
            var stm = new MemoryStream();
            serializer.Serialize(stm, before);
            stm.Seek(0L, SeekOrigin.Begin);
            var after = (SomethingSerialized) serializer.Deserialize(stm);
            Debug.Assert(after.Name == before.Name);
        }

        public void DataContractSerialization()
        {
            var before = new SomethingSerialized {Name = "bob"};
            var serializer = new DataContractSerializer(typeof(SomethingSerialized));
            var stm = new MemoryStream();
            serializer.WriteObject(stm, before);
            stm.Seek(0L, SeekOrigin.Begin);
            var after = (SomethingSerialized) serializer.ReadObject(stm);
            Debug.Assert(after.Name == before.Name);
        }
    }
}