Windows Forms Programming in Visual Basic .NET

ISerializable

To gain even more control over the serialization process, you can implement the ISerializable interface and a special constructor:

 <Serializable()> _ Class MyData Implements ISerializable Dim s As String = "Wahoo!" Dim n As Integer = 6 Public Property MyString() As String Get Return s End Get Set s = Value n = s.Length End Set End Property Public ReadOnly Property Length() As Integer Get Return n End Get End Public Public Overrides Sub New() ... End Sub #Region Implementation of ISerializable Public Overrides Sub New(info As ISerializationInfo, _ context As StreamingContext) ' Get value from name/value pairs s = info.GetString("MyString") ' Cache the string's length n = s.Length End Sub Public Sub GetObjectData(info As SerializationInfo, ...