Intermittent errors while de-serializing object from XML

Question

I have a program that takes objects stored as XML in a database (basicly a message queue) and de-serializes them. Intermittently, I will get one of the following errors:

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Answer 1

You can pre-create serializers: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bk3w6240%28v=VS.100%29.aspx Just give it a try. The next canonical candidate for such problems is your virus scanner. Your tool is writing to disc while creating serializers. I have seen virus scanner producing all kind of strange errors in such situations.