What are the differences between the XmlSerializer and BinaryFormatter

Question

I spent a good portion of time last week working on serialization. During that time I found many examples utilizing either the BinaryFormatter or XmlSerializer. Unfortunatel

Answer 1

I guess one of the most important ones is that binary serialization can serialize both public and private members, whereas the other one works only with public ones.

In here, it provides a very helpful comparison between these two in terms of size. It's a very important issue, because you might send your serialized object to a remote machine.

http://www.nablasoft.com/alkampfer/index.php/2008/10/31/binary-versus-xml-serialization-size/