Deserialization version mismatch

[Guest]

I have a class which is serialized and stored in a file stream. Later I
changed the class with adding some fields to it. Now when I deserialize (I
am deserializing from a later version of my Application) the file framework
throws an exception stating that “Possible Version mismatch. Type [whatever]
has x members, number of members deserialized is y.". Kindly let me know any
work arounds for this problem. If possible send me a sample code that solves
this problem.

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Rohith,

The only way around this problem is to use custom serialization. This
way, you can pull the values from the serialization info passed to your
constructor.

If you are using .NET 2.0, you can use the OptionalField attribute on a
field to indicate that it is optional to be populated. Of course, once you
do this, you would have to make sure that all new fields added to your type
are optional, or non serializable.

Hope this helps.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Nicholas...It helps

Rohith,

The only way around this problem is to use custom serialization. This
way, you can pull the values from the serialization info passed to your
constructor.

If you are using .NET 2.0, you can use the OptionalField attribute on a
field to indicate that it is optional to be populated. Of course, once you
do this, you would have to make sure that all new fields added to your type
are optional, or non serializable.

Hope this helps.


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I have a class which is serialized and stored in a file stream. Later I
changed the class with adding some fields to it. Now when I deserialize
(I
am deserializing from a later version of my Application) the file
framework
throws an exception stating that "Possible Version mismatch. Type
[whatever]
has x members, number of members deserialized is y.". Kindly let me know
any
work arounds for this problem. If possible send me a sample code that
solves
this problem.