Static fields and Serialization

[antoan]

I'm trying to understand why static fields are not serializable in
general. Is it purely because of implementation reasons or because it
does not make sense to do this?

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Re: Static fields and Serialization

antoan <antoan@antoan. plus.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> I'm trying to understand why static fields are not serializable in
> general. Is it purely because of implementation reasons or because it
> does not make sense to do this?[/color]

Serialization persists the state of a single object. Static fields are
not part of the state of an object - they're effectively the state of
the type.

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[antoan]

Re: Static fields and Serialization

Jon Skeet [C# MVP] wrote:[color=blue]
> antoan <antoan@antoan. plus.com> wrote:[color=green]
>> I'm trying to understand why static fields are not serializable in
>> general. Is it purely because of implementation reasons or because it
>> does not make sense to do this?[/color]
>
> Serialization persists the state of a single object. Static fields are
> not part of the state of an object - they're effectively the state of
> the type.
>[/color]
Thanks Jon, exactly what I was looking for.

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