Serialize and Deserialize Using SoapFormatter Class in C#

Introduction

The following code sample shows the implementation of "SoapFormatter". The code defines a class named "MySoapFormatter" to demonstrate serialization and deserialization using the "SoapFormatter" class. The code creates an object of List collection named "Customers" to store the name of the "Customer" and also adds four names to the collection. The code uses the "SoapFormatter" class to write the state of the List object to a file named "Customer.dat" using the Serialize method of the BinaryFormattter class. After serializing the list, the code resoters the serialized data from the "Customer.dat" file, back to the form of an object using the "Deserialize" method of the "SoapFormatter" class, and creates a new list nemed "Customers2". The code finally displays the content of the newly created list, "Customer2", to check whether or not the data is desrialized in the correct format.

Code

classMySoapFormatter
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            List<string> Customers = new List<string>();
            Customers.Add("Kailsh");
            Customers.Add("Ramsharan");
            Customers.Add("Panchanan");
            Customers.Add("Roupya Manjari");

           FileStream FS = new FileStream("Customer.soap",FileMode.Create);
            Serialize(Customers, FS);
            FS.Flush();
            FS.Close();

            FS =new FileStream("Customer.soap",FileMode.Open);
            List<string> Customers2 = Deserialize(FS);
            FS.Close();

           if (Customers2 != null)
            {
                foreach (string Customer in Customers2)

                   Console.WriteLine(Customer);
                }
            }
            Console.ReadLine();

        }
        public static void Serialize(List<string> customers, FileStream fs)
        {
            SoapFormatter SF =new SoapFormatter();
            try
            {
                SF.Serialize(fs, customers);
                Console.WriteLine("Successfully Serialized");
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Unable to Serialize from binary format");
                //Console.WriteLine("Unable to deserialize from binary format");
                Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
            }
        }
        public static List<string> Deserialize(FileStream fs)
        {
            SoapFormatter SF =new SoapFormatter();
            List<string> LS = null;
            try
            {
                LS = (List<string>)SF.Deserialize(fs);
                Console.WriteLine("Successfully Deserialized");
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Unable to Deserialize from binary format");
                //Console.WriteLine("Unable to deserialize from binary format");
                Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
            }
            return LS;
        }
    }