How to Serialize List?

Question

I have Class A. Class B and Class C are part of Class A.

Class A 
{

//Few Properties of Class A

List list1 = new List()

         


        

Answer 1

Easiest way: to do BINARY serialization of any object (Images also and lot of other data!) with IO error catching.

To the class that we need to serialize we need to add [Serializable]

[Serializable]//this like
public class SomeItem
{}

Serialization wrapper:

public static class Serializator
{
    private static BinaryFormatter _bin = new BinaryFormatter();

    public static void Serialize(string pathOrFileName, object objToSerialise)
    {
        using (Stream stream = File.Open(pathOrFileName, FileMode.Create))
        {
            try 
            {
                _bin.Serialize(stream, objToSerialise);
            }
            catch (SerializationException e) 
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Failed to serialize. Reason: " + e.Message);
                throw;
            }
        }
    }

    public static T Deserialize(string pathOrFileName) 
    {
        T items;

        using (Stream stream = File.Open(pathOrFileName, FileMode.Open))
        {
            try 
            {
                items = (T) _bin.Deserialize(stream);
            }
            catch (SerializationException e) 
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Failed to deserialize. Reason: " + e.Message);
                throw;
            }
        }

        return items;
    }
}

and using of the solution:

List itemsCollected; //list with some data

Serializator.Serialize("data.dat", itemsCollected); // trying to serialise


var a = Serializator.Deserialize<%dataType%>("%dataPath%");

var a = Serializator.Deserialize>("data.dat");
// trying to DeSerialize; 
// And important thing that you need to write here 
// correct data format instead of List

in case of error was occured, error will be written to the console.