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How to Serialize Deserialize a class , Deep serialzing



Binar serializing a object

How can you binary serialize a object

this below code does just that.

public static byte[] BinarySerialize(Object obj)
{
byte[] serializedObject;
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
BinaryFormatter b = new BinaryFormatter();
b.Serialize(ms, obj);
ms.Seek(0, 0);
serializedObject = ms.ToArray();
ms.Close();

return serializedObject;
}

deep serializing a file


public static void FileSerialize(Object obj, string filePath)
{
FileStream fileStream = null;

try
{
fileStream = new FileStream(filePath, FileMode.Create);
BinaryFormatter b = new BinaryFormatter();
b.Serialize(fileStream, obj);
}
catch
{
throw;
}
finally
{
if (fileStream != null)
fileStream.Close();
}
}



/ Serialization
XmlSerializer s = new XmlSerializer( typeof( ShoppingList ) );
TextWriter w = new StreamWriter( @"c:\list.xml" );
s.Serialize( w, myList );
w.Close();

// Deserialization
ShoppingList newList;
TextReader r = new StreamReader( "list.xml" );
newList = (ShoppingList)s.Deserialize( r );
r.Close();


System classes used

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Serialization;

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