Best practice to serialize and deserialize .net objects across versions

Question

Objects are serialized to a database using the .NET XML serializer. The object can change over time, and therefore multiple versions exist in the database at one time.

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Answer 1

Look here this talk about best practices on WCF datacontract versioning, this is a bit more specific than what you really want, but these patterns solve the same problem as yours, you can use them in any technology you want.