Thanks Marc for the recommendation. Just for curiosity's sake if i am using
the binary formatter (which the module is by the way) what difference does
it make to set the RemotingFormat to binary ? I am not looking for a super
specific answer. I am just trying to understand what kind of change happens
when setting that.

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 3:54 PM, Marc Gravell <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Great! Give that a go, and see if it gets you what you need. As a
> footnote: I advocate *not* using data tables as a data transfer tool,
> except in very specific circumstances (such as ad-hoc query systems where
> the structure is very flexible). But that is a huge thing to change.
>
> On 14 Feb 2018 7:07 am, "Som Shankar Bhattacharyya" <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I see no remting format set. Looks like it used the default xml format.
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 12:11 AM, Marc Gravell <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Protobuf doesn't touch security, so we can ignore that one.
>>>
>>> Modelling datasets/DataTable is awkward. It isn't really a natural fit,
>>> but it can be manually forced. However, the first thing I'd say is: have
>>> you set the "RemotingFormat" on the dataset to **binary** before using your
>>> existing serialization? Assuming you are using BinaryFormatter, setting the
>>> "RemotingFormat" can have a *huge* efficiency benefit, and might allow you
>>> to get most of what you wanted without doing much work.
>>>
>>> On 13 Feb 2018 8:08 am, "Som Shankar Bhattacharyya" <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> So i work in a legacy Visual Basic project. It is a client server
>>>> application. The client application sends up some table data to the server
>>>> that persists to a file system. A separate windows service then reads this
>>>> data and saves to the server database.
>>>> Now the data that is sent up from the client is a datatable in a raw
>>>> .NET serialized format. The service that reads this information has the
>>>> model on its path and is hence able to reconstruct the objects.
>>>>
>>>> Now i want to get rid of this flow and use a more secure as well as
>>>> better performant way of doing the same.
>>>> Can someone give me  an idea of how to approach this ?
>>>>
>>>> How do i model a dataset in the protobuff language ?
>>>>
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