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Object Serialization

When talking about I/O in general, its important to think of object serialization. Before we see how objects can be serialized, it's necessary to understand the fundamental concepts of this topic. Assume that a complex object provides a rich set of attributes. When writing the object to disk, it's necessary to find a suitable format in which to store the data efficiently. More than that, it can be necessary to have easy-to-use interfaces that make it possible to quickly implement software. Luckily, C# and the Mono framework provide such interfaces.

Mono's onboard tools for object serialization take an instance and transform it to a string. This string be can saved to disk. Of course, reading data from disk and making an instance ...