Exam Ref 70-483: Programming in C#

Objective 4.4: Serialize and deserialize data

When building your applications, you will often exchange data with other applications. When sending data to a web service or over a network stream, you first have to transform your data to a flat or binary form. When you receive data, you have to transform the flat or binary data to the objects you want to work with. This process is called serialization and deserialization.

This objective covers how to:

• Use serialization and deserialization.

• Use different types of serializers.

• Configure your objects for serialization.

Using serialization and deserialization

Serialization is the process of transforming an object or object graph that you have in-memory into a stream of bytes or text. Deserialization is the ...