Format Your Way to Success with the .NET Framework Versions 1.1 and 2.0

摘要

Serialization is the act of persisting the state of an object, typically to a file or a memory stream. Serialization is crucial when it comes to composing an application out of independent components. If an application contains several components from various vendors, how will it persist its objects into a single file without having the individual components overwrite and destroy the information persisted by other components? By default, objects in .NET are not serializable. But the Microsoft~(~R) .NET Framework provides a standard, straightforward way to serialize and deserialize objects.