Object (string) serialization

[Ann Huxtable]

Hi,

I have a nested object (containing dictionaries) that i want to be able
to persist (and read back from) a configuration file.

Anyone has any ideas/pointers as to how to go about this. Essentially,
my objects are dictioanies of dictionaries, and I want to be able to
persist their state to text. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

thanks

 

[Stoitcho Goutsev \(100\) [C# MVP]]

Ann,

Take a look at this article
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/06/XMLFiles/default.aspx
and more specifcally at the Q&A "I've noticed that XmlSerializer won't
serialize objects that implement IDictionary by default. Is there any way
around this?"

HTH
Stoitcho Goutsev (100) [C# MVP]

 

[Paul Gielens]

Hi Ann,

Try XStream.NET (http://www.jroller.com/page/CoBraLorD/20050427) capable of
serializing/deserializing any (including objects implementing IDictionary)
objects.

Best regards,
Paul Gielens

Visit my blog @ http://weblogs.asp.net/pgielens/
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