A complete list of .NET Serializers in 3.5

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.NET Serializers – Development With A Dot.

As of version 3.5 SP1, .NET comes along with the following serializers:

System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter: binary serializer used in .NET Remoting, type information is included, understands System.Runtime.Serialization.ISerializable;

System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapFormatter: SOAP (XML) serializer used in .NET Remoting, includes type information, understands System.Runtime.Serialization.ISerializable;

System.Runtime.Serialization.DataContractSerializer: XML serializer used in WCF, does not include type information;

System.Runtime.Serialization.Json.DataContractJsonSerializer: JSON serializer used in WCF, does not include type information;

System.Runtime.Serialization.NetDataContractSerializer: binary serializer used in WCF, includes type information;

System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer: XML serializer used in ASP.NET Web Services (ASMX), type information is not included, understands System.Xml.Serialization.IXmlSerializable;

System.Web.UI.LosFormatter: uses ObjectStateFormatter internally, does not account by itself;

System.Web.UI.ObjectStateFormatter: binary serializer used in ASP.NET for storing items in view state, control state and session, type information is included, understands System.Runtime.Serialization.ISerializable.

There isn’t, however, a common interface for all of these serializers, and, in fact, they have quite different requirements.

The base interfaces are:

System.Runtime.Serialization.IFormatter: for BinaryFormatter, SoapFormatter, NetDataContractSerializer and ObjectStateFormatter;

System.Runtime.Serialization.XmlObjectSerializer: for DataContractSerializer, DataContractJsonSerializer and NetDataContractSerializer;

XmlSerializer doesn’t have any interface that specifies its behavior.

The interfaces that can be used to control the serialization process are:

System.Runtime.Serialization.ISerializable: for all the IFormatter serializers;

System.Xml.Serialization.IXmlSerializable: for XmlSerializer.

Also, there are a couple of attribute classes that can be used to control the serialization process:

System.Xml.Serialization.SoapAttributeAttribute (XmlSerializer)

System.Xml.Serialization.SoapElementAttribute (XmlSerializer)

System.Xml.Serialization.SoapEnumAttribute (XmlSerializer)

System.Xml.Serialization.SoapIgnoreAttribute (XmlSerializer)

System.Xml.Serialization.SoapIncludeAttribute (XmlSerializer)

System.Xml.Serialization.SoapTypeAttribute (XmlSerializer)

System.Xml.Serialization.XmlAnyAttribute (XmlSerializer)

System.Xml.Serialization.XmlAnyElementAttribute (XmlSerializer)

System.Xml.Serialization.XmlArrayAttribute (XmlSerializer)

System.Xml.Serialization.XmlArrayItemAttribute (XmlSerializer)

System.Xml.Serialization.XmlAttributeAttribute (XmlSerializer)

System.Xml.Serialization.XmlChoiceIdentifierAttribute (XmlSerializer)

System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute (XmlSerializer)

System.Xml.Serialization.XmlEnumAttribute (XmlSerializer)

System.Xml.Serialization.XmlIgnoreAttribute (XmlSerializer)

System.Xml.Serialization.XmlIncludeAttribute (XmlSerializer)

System.Xml.Serialization.XmlRootAttribute (XmlSerializer)

System.Xml.Serialization.XmlTypeAttribute (XmlSerializer)

System.Runtime.Serialization.CollectionDataContractAttribute (XmlObjectSerializer)

System.Runtime.Serialization.DataContractAttribute (XmlObjectSerializer)

System.Runtime.Serialization.DataMemberAttribute (XmlObjectSerializer)

System.Runtime.Serialization.EnumMemberAttribute (XmlObjectSerializer)

System.Runtime.Serialization.IgnoreDataMemberAttribute (XmlObjectSerializer)

Note that the Soap* attributes are only considered if the SoapBindingStyle.Document is set for the Style property of the binding, in ASP.NET Web Services, otherwise, its the Xml* attributes.

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