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Serialization of an object list in binary form
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using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Collections;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;
using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;
using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap;
[Serializable]
public class MyElement
{
public MyElement(string name)
{
this.name = name;
this.cacheValue = 15;
}
public override string ToString()
{
return(String.Format("{0}: {1}", name, cacheValue));
}
string name;
[NonSerialized]
int cacheValue;
}
[Serializable]
public class MyElementList
{
public void Add(MyElement my)
{
row.Add(my);
}
public override string ToString()
{
string temp = null;
foreach (MyElement my in row)
temp += my.ToString() + "\n";
return(temp);
}
ArrayList row = new ArrayList();
}
class MainClass
{
public static void Main()
{
MyElementList row = new MyElementList();
row.Add(new MyElement("Gumby"));
row.Add(new MyElement("Pokey"));
Console.WriteLine("Initial value");
Console.WriteLine("{0}", row);
// write to binary, read it back
Stream streamWrite = File.Create("MyElementList.bin");
BinaryFormatter binaryWrite = new BinaryFormatter();
binaryWrite.Serialize(streamWrite, row);
streamWrite.Close();
Stream streamRead = File.OpenRead("MyElementList.bin");
BinaryFormatter binaryRead = new BinaryFormatter();
MyElementList rowBinary = (MyElementList) binaryRead.Deserialize(streamRead);
streamRead.Close();
Console.WriteLine("Values after binary serialization");
Console.WriteLine("{0}", rowBinary);
}
}
Initial value
Gumby: 15
Pokey: 15
Values after binary serialization
Gumby: 0
Pokey: 0
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