Tutorial: Visual Studio 2008 C# Serialization

When programming with object oriented languages you may need to transfer data through a network, or between applications. The .Net environment gives you the opportunity to accomplish this task without too much hassle. Suppose you have an object and you must pass it to another application. How do you do that? You only need to serialize the object either in binary or in xml format and your object is ready to be transferred. In this tutorial we will see an example of such a serialization in a binary format. We will create an object in a custom serializable class and then we will serialize it in a binary file. We then deserialize the file and extract its parameters so as to verify that they have been transferred correctly.