Implementation of serialization

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how can use serialization in asp.net application

Satyapriya Nayak · Answer

Hi Sharad Please refer the below links http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/36781/Serialization-and-Deserialization-in-ASP-NET-with http://aspalliance.com/983_Introducing_Serialization_in_NET http://www.codeguru.com/csharp/.net/net_framework/article.php/c19541/Serialization-in-the-NET-Framework.htm http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/012302-1.shtml Thanks

Shakuntala Gaur · Answer

Serialization - The process of converting an object into a stream of bytes. This stream of bytes can be persisted. Deserialization is an opposite process which involves converting a stream of bytes into an object. Serialization is used usually during remoting (while transporting objects) and to persist file objecst & database objects. .NET provides 2 ways for serializtion 1) XmlSerializer and 2) BinaryFormatter/SoapFormatter The XmlSerializer is used for Web Services. The BinaryFormatter & SoapFormatter is used for Remoting. While using XmlSerializer  it is required that the target class has parameter less constructors has public read-write properties and has fields that can be serialized. The XmlSerializer has good support for XML documents. It can be used to construct objects from existing XML documents. The XmlSerializer enables us to serialize and deserialize objects to an XML format. SoapFormatter enables us to serialize & deserialize objects to SOAP format. They can serialize private and public fields of a class. The target class must be marked with the Serializable attribute. On deserialization the constructor of the new object is not invoked. The BinaryFormatter has the same features as the SoapFormatter except that it formats data into binary format. The BinaryForamatter (and the SoapFormatter) has two main methods. Serialize and Deserialize. To serialize an object we pass an instance of the stream and the object to the Serialize method. To Deserialize an object you pass an instance of a stream to the Deserialize method. You can use the BinaryFormatter to serialize many but not all classes in the .NET Framework. For example you can serialize ArrayLists DataSets and Arrays but not other objects such as DataReaders or TextBox controls. To serialize a class the class must have the Serializable attribute or implement the ISerializable interface. Note that the XmlSerializer captures only the public members of the class whereas the BinaryFormatter & the SoapFormatter captures both the public & private members of the class. The output using the BinaryFormatter is quite compact as the information is in binary format whereas the XmlSerializer format is filled with XML tags See example below... Imports System.IOImports System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary Dim colArrayList As ArrayListDim objFileStream As FileStreamDim objBinaryFormatter As BinaryFormattercolArrayList = New ArrayList() colArrayList.Add( Whisky) colArrayList.Add( Vodka) colArrayList.Add( Brandy) objFileStream = New FileStream(MapPath(C:\myArrayList.data) FileMode.Create) objBinaryFormatter = New BinaryFormatterobjBinaryFormatter.Serialize(objFileStream colArrayList)objFileStream.Close() Here we see that an instance of the file stream (objFileStream) and an instance of the object (colArrayList) is passed to the Serialize method of the BinaryFormatter object (objBinaryFormatter). We also end up creating a file by the name myArrayList.data on our hard-drive.In order to deserialize an object see the code below… Dim colArrayList As ArrayListDim objFileStream As FileStreamDim objBinaryFormatter As BinaryFormatterDim strItem As String objFileStream = New FileStream( MapPath(myArrayList.data) FileMode.Open ) objBinaryFormatter = New BinaryFormatter colArrayList = CType( objBinaryFormatter.Deserialize( objFileStream ) ArrayList ) objFileStream.Close() For Each strItem In colArrayList Response.Write(   & strItem ) Next Here CType takes in two parameters the first parameter is the serialized object in the file stream format and the second parameter is the desired type. Finally the page iterates through all the elements of the ArrayList and displays the value of each element. XmlSerializer does not serialize instances of classes like Hashtable which implement the IDictionary interface. Serializable - This is a class attribute. When we use this attribute with a class an instance of this class can be taken in whatever state it is and write it to a disk. The class can then be deserialized and the class will act as if it is simply stored in the memory. Further for Asp.net Serialization Please refer the Link below it might help you out If my answer helps out please select it accepted. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/36781/Serialization-and-Deserialization-in-ASP-NET-with Cheers Thanks