GeekBoy001

 Profile Answers by GeekBoy001 

• Dec 25th, 2008

 

Marking a class with the key word [Serializable] at the top ensures that the object can be serialized in an XML format primarily for data exchange between disparate systems.  Also, this is required if this object is going to be inherited by other objects which needs to be serialized downstream.

rags_73

 Profile Answers by rags_73 

• Mar 26th, 2009

 

Preserving the state of an object is called as serialization and serialization is needed whenever you want communicate across process as well as physical boundaries.

chintan.desai

 Profile Answers by chintan.desai 

• Aug 7th, 2009

 

Serializable is a concept of converting your user define type i.e. class into bytes. Serializing object into bytes help for ease in transporting data within network or machines. .Net also provides support to desializing

We can do Serializing in following ways:
i. XmlSerializer.
ii. Soap Formatter and Binary formatter.

azita2005

 Profile Answers by azita2005 

• Apr 6th, 2010

 

Serialization is the process of taking an object and convert it to a format that can be transmitted over the network or save in database or store in the file.

Objects may be serialized in three formats: Binary, Soap and Xml.

Remoting and Web Services depend heavilly on Serialization and De-serialization.

kirangiet

 Profile Answers by kirangiet 

• Jun 8th, 2010

 

We usually serialize the object, which we are transferring across processes.

Example: When we are using Out Proc session Management we should add the serializable attribute at the top of the class.

e.g.

[Serializable]
public Class Employee
{
public string Name;
public int Age;
}