Serialization

[Arran Pearce]

Hi,

I have just looked at serialization (to a file) and was surprised how easy
it seemed to be. Are there any issues when serializing objects? or is it
really just that easy and powerful and I am looking for problems?

cheers for any info.

Arran

[Michael Giagnocavo [MVP]]

Re: Serialization

Serialization's pretty nice. Other than that, it's pretty sweet :)
Welcome to .NET.

That's a simple answer, as of course, complex scenarios have many issues.
For instance, in Dynamic Assemblies (assemblied created at runtime) it XML
Serialization does not work. But in straight-forward scenarios, things are
nice.

-mike
MVP

"Arran Pearce" <arran.pearce@b acoll.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have just looked at serialization (to a file) and was surprised how easy
> it seemed to be. Are there any issues when serializing objects? or is it
> really just that easy and powerful and I am looking for problems?
>
> cheers for any info.
>
> Arran
>
>[/color]

[Arran Pearce]

Re: Serialization

Good stuff.


"Michael Giagnocavo [MVP]" <mggUNSPAM@Atre vido.net> wrote in message
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> Serialization's pretty nice. Other than that, it's pretty sweet :)
> Welcome to .NET.
>
> That's a simple answer, as of course, complex scenarios have many issues.
> For instance, in Dynamic Assemblies (assemblied created at runtime) it XML
> Serialization does not work. But in straight-forward scenarios, things are
> nice.
>
> -mike
> MVP
>
> "Arran Pearce" <arran.pearce@b acoll.ac.uk> wrote in message
> news:uLfHeMIqDH A.1408@TK2MSFTN GP11.phx.gbl...[color=green]
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have just looked at serialization (to a file) and was surprised how[/color][/color]
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> > it seemed to be. Are there any issues when serializing objects? or is[/color][/color]
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> > really just that easy and powerful and I am looking for problems?
> >
> > cheers for any info.
> >
> > Arran
> >
> >[/color]
>
>
>[/color]

[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

Re: Serialization

Arran,
Yes it is that simple for 99% of what you will need to do. For the other 1%
its not that hard to add the extra support...

In case you don't have them the following MSDN Magazine articles are useful
for understanding Serialization.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/04/net/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/07/net/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/09/net/

Hope this helps
Jay

"Arran Pearce" <arran.pearce@b acoll.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have just looked at serialization (to a file) and was surprised how easy
> it seemed to be. Are there any issues when serializing objects? or is it
> really just that easy and powerful and I am looking for problems?
>
> cheers for any info.
>
> Arran
>
>[/color]

[Eric Gunnerson [MS]]

Re: Serialization

If you need to deserialize after modifying your objects (ie read in old
versions), you'll want to implement custom serialization for each object (by
implementing ISerializable) so that you have more control. If you don't do
this, you'll be unable to read old versions.

--
Eric Gunnerson

Visit the C# product team at http://www.csharp.net
Eric's blog is at http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/ericgu/

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
"Arran Pearce" <arran.pearce@b acoll.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have just looked at serialization (to a file) and was surprised how easy
> it seemed to be. Are there any issues when serializing objects? or is it
> really just that easy and powerful and I am looking for problems?
>
> cheers for any info.
>
> Arran
>
>[/color]