Monthly Archives: April 2011

.NET Serialization Choices

Introduction

Serialization is not a trivial problem in any language. In .NET there are quite some choices available for serializing/deserializing objects. Each available option has it’s strengths and weaknesses.

I’ve started a project on git hub SerializationTests where i’m trying to determine what is supported by which library and draw a few conclusions that should be helpful when designing serializable objects and in general when dealing… read full article