Question

I am building a WCF RIA service used for Silverlight application.
I am using BinaryFormatter.Serialize() to serialize my data to binary array before sending back to client side (silver light).

However, Silverlight 4 doesn’t support BinaryFormatter yet, could you advise how to deserialize a byte array back to object at client side as BinaryFormatter.Deserialize() does at service side.

Thanks

Answer 1

I found some links that might help you:

• Check this project out: http://whydoidoit.com/silverlight-serializer/
• Silverlight 3.0 Binary Serialization Support?
• http://www.codeproject.com/KB/silverlight/bin_ser_in_silverlight.aspx
  • “In Silverlight, there is no choice if you want to use binary serialization. As there is no BinaryFormatter in Silverlight, the only solution is sharpSerializer.”