Soap Serialization
Soap serialization works similarly to binary serialization. First, you need to add a reference to the System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.dll
assembly. Then you add an Imports System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap
directive. At this point you can serialize and deserialize your objects. To continue the example of the typed collection shown in the previous section, write the following code to accomplish serialization with the Soap formatter:
Basically there is no difference in the syntax for the Soap formatter if compared to the binary one.
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