or doing something like this....
Public Function GetXML() as string
Dim serializer As New
System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer(GetType(YOUROBJECTTYPEHERE))
Dim writer As New System.IO.StringWriter()
Dim Obj As YOUROBJECTTYPEHERE
Obj = Me
serializer.Serialize(writer, Obj)
Dim s As String
s = writer.ToString
writer.Close()
Return s
End Function
-----Original Message-----
From: Brent E. Rector [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 4:35 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [DOTNET] Object serialization to string representation
Well, you are using the "Binary" formatter to write the state of your
object to the stream. But you subsequently try and read the binary data
as a string. You'd have better luck using the SoapFormatter.
-- Brent Rector, .NET Wise Owl
Demeanor for .NET - an obfuscation utility
http://www.wiseowl.com/Products/Products.aspx
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Holak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 2:13 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [DOTNET] Object serialization to string representation
I'm trying a test function to serialize an object to a string (to
eventually upload the string to a database for storage). The object
serializes just fine to disk creating a Stream as a File.IO.
What I'm encountering is trying to serialize to a MemoryStream and
reading it back with a StreamReader; in the code below the string "test"
is always empty ("")
The "this" reference is the object itself which contains the
serialization implemetation.
What am I missing, and is there a simpler way to return the string
representation of a serialized object without writing to disk?
Stream stream = new MemoryStream();
BinaryFormatter formatter = new BinaryFormatter();
formatter.Serialize(stream,this);//this is the object
saving itself to the db.
StreamReader sr =new StreamReader(stream);
sr.BaseStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
//test always shows ""
string test=sr.ReadToEnd();
stream.Close();
TIA
Steve Holak
Senior Software Architect
Brokerage Concepts IS Dept.
610-491-4879
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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