Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, Fifth Edition

20.14. Configuring Objects for Serialization

To make an object available to .NET serialization services, all you need to do is decorate each related class (or structure) with the [Serializable] attribute. If you determine that a given type has some member data that should not (or perhaps cannot) participate in the serialization scheme, you can mark such fields with the [NonSerialized] attribute. This can be helpful if you wish to reduce the size of the persisted data, and you have member variables in a serializable class that do not need to be remembered (e.g., fixed values, random -values, and transient data).

20.14.1. Defining Serializable Types

To get the ball rolling, create a new Console Application named SimpleSerialize. Insert a new ...