Question

I have an Class structure like this:

class A { 
   Dictionary<UInt64, B> listB;
   method1(){}
   methodN(){}
}

class B {       

   Dictionary<UInt32, C> listC;
   Dictionary<UInt32, E> listE;
   List<F> listF;
   method1(){}
   methodN(){}
}

class C { 
   Dictionary<UInt32, D> listD;
   method1(){}
   methodN(){}
}

class D { 
   method1(){}
   methodN(){}
}   

class E { 
   method1(){}
   methodN(){}
}    

class F { 
   method1(){}
   methodN(){}
}

Class A is the main Class, and B is a sub class of A. All other classes are sub class of B.

I want to serialize class A with all sub Classes.

How can I serialize these Objects?

Thank You!

Answer 1

since you said you want to do it over sockets, probably something like this:

public void SerializeObject(NetworkStream stream, ObjectToSerialize objectToSerialize)
{
   varbFormatter = new BinaryFormatter();
   bFormatter.Serialize(stream, objectToSerialize);
   stream.Close();
}

public ObjectToSerialize DeSerializeObject(NetworkStream stream)
{
   ObjectToSerialize objectToSerialize;
   var bFormatter = new BinaryFormatter();
   objectToSerialize = (ObjectToSerialize)bFormatter.Deserialize(stream);
   stream.Close();
   return objectToSerialize;
}

edit: note: code is untested. it probably needs some modifications depending on your stream and such

And like Brad commented, give all your classes the SerializableAttribute.

[Serializable]
class A { 
...
}