Question

I created a binary serialized file of my object, so that I could use it as a database file for many other projects. It works quite fine with the same project, but when I try to deserialize that file from other projects, it won’t. The error that appears says, “xxxx.xxxx assembly not found”. So, how should I serialize the object in order to make it assembly independent???

Here’s my code :

            // Binary formatter
            IFormatter formatter = new BinaryFormatter();
            Stream stream = new FileStream("BinarySerialization.bin",
                                     FileMode.Create,
                                     FileAccess.Write, FileShare.None);
            formatter.Serialize(stream, words);
            stream.Close();

What amendments do I need to do??? Please provide me with a working code example/sample.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I would put all my models that have to be serialized into a seperate assembly.
Then you reference this assembly everywhere you need to deserialize the Models.

If not you need some kind of generator, that recreates the models based on some schema (same as WCF does with its utilities) or use plain formats like XML to persist your data.