Why does SerializationInfo not have TryGetValue methods?

Question

When implementing the ISerializable interface in C#, we provide a constructor which takes a SerializationInfo object, and then queries it with various

Answer 1

You can iterate over the available fields and use switch, though...

foreach(SerializationEntry entry in info) {
    switch(entry.Name) {
        ...
    }
}

Or you could use protobuf-net ;-p