Binary and XML Serialization
The first time I heard the word serialization, I walked in the other direction. Why they give some software technologies seemingly complicated names is beyond me, but as you work through this hour, you'll notice that the basic mechanisms behind serialization in the .NET Framework are not too complicated at all.
The first question you have to ask yourself is why you would need or want to use serialization in the first place. The first reason, as just mentioned, is to save the state of an object. If you look through parts of your Registry, especially through the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software section, you might run into a few applications that save information such as recently used files, the window size of the application ...
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