Serializing with Attributes
The first step to perform in serialization is to mark an object as serializable. To do this, place the attribute [Serializable] preceding the class declaration for your Windows Form. Believe it or not, that is all you need to do to enable object serialization. You still need to invoke the serialization process, but as of right now your object is ready to be serialized. Well, sort of. If you were to serialize your Windows Form object right now, you would get a SerializationException, as shown in Figure 24.2. This occurs because serialization is attempted on the base Form class, which has not been marked with the Serializable attribute.
Figure 24.2. Serialization exception notification dialog.
To circumvent this problem, ...
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