Let say I have a file that contains a serialized object by BinaryFomatter. Now I want to be able to serialize another object and APPEND this on that existing file.
How can I do it?
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Let say I have a file that contains a serialized object by BinaryFomatter. Now I want to be able to serialize another object and APPEND this on that existing file.
How can I do it?
First, if what you really need is to store an array of object – put them in a container and serialize the container, as said earlier.
Now, if you really want to store two serialized object in a single file concatenated:
I’m not sure that this is possible “out of the box”, but you can do two things.
Use, or invent your own semi-tar file format, in which you’ll write a small header in the beginning (or end) of the file that describes the content of the file (#’objects, and sizes).
Write a C# code to detect the beginning and end of each serialized object yourself. I’m not entirely sure it’s possible. Here is a non-official documentation of the serialization format. It contains header, however there’s no guarantee that this header won’t appear in the file.