What is data marshaling and why to use data marshalling?

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Prasham Sabadra · Answer

Hi Rajesh Please have a look at following links once https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshalling_%28computer_science%29 https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/b91383fb-b54e-4b07-8142-34430e260d4c/c-marshallingunmarshalling?forum=csharplanguage

Manas Mohapatra · Answer

Marshalling is the process of converting a data field or an entire set of related structures into a serialized string that can be sent in a message. To marshall a binary number one might convert it to hexadecimal digit string if the message format must be text. If the message will carry binary data the binary number might be converted into 4 little-endian normalized binary bytes and sent that way. Pointers are harder; one often has to convert them into an abstract reference (e.g. a node number) that is independent of the actual memory locations. Please go through below link for more info: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/66245/Marshaling-with-Csharp-Chapter-1-Introducing-Marsh.aspx