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Asked: 2026-05-15T20:34:11+00:00

I’m writing a logging framework and need to serialize each object in an IDictionary<string,object>

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I’m writing a logging framework and need to serialize each object in an IDictionary<string,object>. Object can be a simple string, int etc. or a complex business object or a collection of either. Therefore I need a flexible method for doing this.

At the more complex end of things I’d like the output to be something like:

Object = IList<Person>

  1. List Of Person:
    • Person:
      • Name: David Neale
      • Gender: Male
    • Person:
      • Name: John Smith
      • Gender: Male

I don’t need to handle nested to the level of the object containing a collection which contains collections.

Could somebody point me in the right direction?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Take a look at the answers to this question on SO to get you started.

    Basically, there’s no built-in mechanism to do so in .NET – however, you can look at some of the objectDump code that’s out on the web, like this.

    FYI: Apparently the ObjectDumper code is something that is part of the VS C# samples (see Eric White’s blog):

    You can find Object Dumper in the
    CSharpSamples.zip file that is
    installed with Visual Studio 2008.

    C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
    Studio
    9.0\Samples\1033\CSharpSamples.zip

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