Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Binary Serialization

The following example shows how you can serialize a typed collection of strings into a file on disk using the BinaryFormatter class:

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Dim stringSeries As New List(Of String) From                    {"Serialization", "demo",                     "with VB"}Dim targetFile As New _    FileStream("C:\temp\SerializedData.dat",               FileMode.Create)Dim formatter As New BinaryFormatterformatter.Serialize(targetFile, stringSeries)targetFile.Close()formatter = Nothing

Note

The previous code example requires Imports System.IO and Imports System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary directives.

The code creates a new file named SerializedData.dat and puts the result of the binary serialization ...