Custom Serialization using ISerializable : ISerializable : Class Interface C# Source Code

    
 

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;

using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap;


[Serializable]
class MyStringData : ISerializable {
    public string dataItemOne, dataItemTwo;

    public MyStringData() { }

    private MyStringData(SerializationInfo si, StreamingContext ctx) {
        dataItemOne = si.GetString("First_Item").ToLower();
        dataItemTwo = si.GetString("dataItemTwo").ToLower();
    }

    void ISerializable.GetObjectData(SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext ctx) {
        // Fill up the SerializationInfo object with the formatted data.
        info.AddValue("First_Item", dataItemOne.ToUpper());
        info.AddValue("dataItemTwo", dataItemTwo.ToUpper());
    }
}

[Serializable]
class MoreData {
    public string dataItemOne, dataItemTwo;

    [OnSerializing]
    internal void OnSerializing(StreamingContext context) {
        dataItemOne = dataItemOne.ToUpper();
        dataItemTwo = dataItemTwo.ToUpper();
    }

    [OnDeserialized]
    internal void OnDeserialized(StreamingContext context) {
        dataItemOne = dataItemOne.ToLower();
        dataItemTwo = dataItemTwo.ToLower();
    }
}
class Program {
    static void Main(string[] args) {
        MyStringData sd = new MyStringData();
        sd.dataItemOne = "some data.";
        sd.dataItemTwo = "some more data";

        Stream s = new FileStream("MyData.soap",
        FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.None);

        SoapFormatter sf = new SoapFormatter();
        sf.Serialize(s, sd);
        s.Close();

        s = File.OpenRead("MyData.soap");
        sd = (MyStringData)sf.Deserialize(s);
        Console.WriteLine("Item 1: {0}", sd.dataItemOne);
        Console.WriteLine("Item 2: {0}", sd.dataItemTwo);

        MoreData md = new MoreData();
        md.dataItemOne = "1, 2, 3.";
        md.dataItemTwo = "One more test...";

        s = new FileStream("MoreData.soap",FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.None);

        sf = new SoapFormatter();
        sf.Serialize(s, md);
        s.Close();

        s = File.OpenRead("MoreData.soap");
        md = (MoreData)sf.Deserialize(s);
        Console.WriteLine("Item 1: {0}", md.dataItemOne);
        Console.WriteLine("Item 2: {0}", md.dataItemTwo);
    }
}