Mega Code Archive
Use BinaryFormatter to Serialize an object to file
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using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;
using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;
[Serializable]
class Employee
{
private int Number;
private string FirstName;
private string LastName;
public void WriteEmployee(){
Console.WriteLine("Number: " + this.Number);
Console.WriteLine("FirstName: " + this.FirstName);
Console.WriteLine("LastName: " + this.LastName);
}
public Employee(int newNumber, string newFirstName, string LastName){
this.Number = newNumber;
this.FirstName = newFirstName;
this.LastName = LastName;
}
}
class MainClass
{
public static void Main()
{
Employee emp = new Employee(1, "X", "F");
emp.WriteEmployee();
FileStream serializeStream = new FileStream("c:\\test.dat", FileMode.Create);
BinaryFormatter bf = new BinaryFormatter();
bf.Serialize(serializeStream, emp);
serializeStream.Flush();
serializeStream.Close();
FileStream retrieveStream = new FileStream("c:\\test.dat", FileMode.Open);
Employee NewEmployee = (Employee) bf.Deserialize(retrieveStream);
NewEmployee.WriteEmployee();
}
}
Number: 1
FirstName: X
LastName: F
Number: 1
FirstName: X
LastName: F
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