Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Providing Serialization for Custom Objects

You can make your custom objects serializable so that you can apply the previously described techniques for persisting and re-creating objects’ state. To be serializable, a class (or structure) must be decorated with the Serializable attribute. This is the most basic scenario and is represented by the following implementation of the Person class:

If you do not need to get control over the serialization process, this is all you need. By the way, there can be certain situations that you need to handle. For instance, you might want to disable serialization for a member that could result obsolete if too much ...