Binary Serialization in .NET

Persisting objects to other medium for future use is one advantage of the serialization mechanisms built into the .NET Framework. Listed below is are 2 code sections showing serialization and deserialization to disk.

SERIALIZE:

FileStream fStream = new FileStream(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[1].ToString(), FileMode.Open); BinaryFormatter bin = new BinaryFormatter(); htObject = bin.Deserialize(fStream) as Hashtable;

DESERIALIZE:

Stream binstream = File.OpenWrite(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[1].ToString()); BinaryFormatter binFmtr = new BinaryFormatter(); binFmtr.Serialize(binstream, m_hashTable); binstream.Close();

This can be useful in XNA programming. More C++ for DirectX9 posts will be coming next week.