binary-serialization

I'm de/serializing an object like so: public class myClass : ISerializable { public List<OType> value; public myClass(SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context) { this.value = (List<OType>)info.GetValue("value", typeof(List<OType>)); } void ISerializable.GetObjectData(SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context) { info.AddValue("value", value, typeof(List<OType>)); } } The object that is in the list does have the Serializable attribute. When serializing, no errors are thrown and the list is never empty, but when deserializing all of my lists are null and I'm not sure why. I'm

I was doing some comparison between BinaryFormatter and protobuf-net serializer and was quite pleased with what I found , but what was strange is that protobuf-net managed to serialize the objects into a smaller byte array than what I would get if I just wrote the value of every property into an array of bytes without any metadata. I know protobuf-net supports string interning if you set AsReference to true , but I'm not doing that in this case, so does protobuf-net provide some compression by default? Here's some code you can run to see for yourself: var simpleObject = new SimpleObject { Id =

Let's say we have 3 Classes: class foo { // not a singleton String s; } class bar { foo f; int i; } class baz { foo sameF; } Now we create instances foo onlyFoo = new foo("the only one"); bar theBar = new bar(onlyFoo, 123); baz theBaz = new baz(onlyFoo); After that we want to store them serilazed in a file. If we deserialze theBaz, modify onlyFoo and deserialize theBaz to the file again, theBar still contains the original onlyFoo, so there are two different versions of onlyFoo. What I want instead is that I store theBaz and theBar without onlyFoo, store the three objects separately and once

Take the simple HashTable : $data = @{ First = 'Justin'; Last = 'Dearing'; StartDate = Get-Date '2002-03-23'; } The key StartDate seems to contain a DateTime . C:\Users\zippy\Documents> $data.StartDate.GetType().FullName System.DateTime However, if I attempt to perform binary serialization on it, I get an exception complaining that PSObject is not serializable. $ms = New-Object System.IO.MemoryStream $bf = New-Object System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter $bf.Serialize($ms, $data) $ms.Close() Throws: DocumentsException calling "Serialize" with "2" argument(s): "Type

I am using BinaryFormatter to serialize a class and its variables by condition. For example: [Serializable] public class Class1 { private Class2 B; ... } [Serializable] public class Class2{...} I want the variable B to be serialized only when remoting time, but not when i serialize it to file storage. Questions: 1) I know that in XmlSerialization we can use [XmlIgnore] and {PropertyName}Specified to ignore the property conditionally. Is that a equivalent method for [NonSerialized]? 2) For a class with [Serializable] attribute, how to ignore it at the runtime? There is no such method. You can