Serialize Assembly to Stream and back again

[Carl Gilbert]

Hi

I am trying to serialize an assembly into a byte array. I am using a
BinaryFormatter to serialize the assembly into a stream. Once in the
stream, would then save this to the database in a byte().

I have come across a few issues with deserializing the stream so I decided
to strip out all the un-necessary code and simply serialize from an assembly
to a stream and then de-serialize is back again using the same
BinaryFormatter.

However, I get the following error:

SaveGUI: Insufficient state to deserialize the object. More information
is needed.

With the following code:

Try
Dim myAssembly As [Assembly]
myAssembly = myAssembly.LoadFile("d:\test.dll")

Dim binFormatter As New Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter
Dim stream As New MemoryStream

binFormatter.Serialize(stream, myAssembly)

stream.Position = 0

Dim ass As [Assembly]
ass = binFormatter.Deserialize(stream)

Catch ex As System.Exception
Debug.WriteLine(ex.Message, "SaveGUI")
End Try

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Regards, Carl Gilbert

 

[Guest]

Hi,

why not just use the System.IO classes to read the FileStream of the DLL and
write out the bytes in Base64Encoding to XML. It might be a better option!

 

[Carl Gilbert]

The LoadFile is just being used to ensure that a good assembly was being
used. In reality, I will be getting the Assembly at runtime.
The problem is that when I have an Assembly that I know is good, I can not
get back the same assembly after the serialization/de-serialization.
I feel that I am missing something on the serialize settings.

Regards, Carl