How to unit test if my object is really serializable?

Question

I am using C# 2.0 with Nunit Test. I have some object that needs to be serialized. These objects are quite complex (inheritance at different levels and contains a lot of obj

Answer 1

Probably a bit late in the day, but if you are using the FluentAssertions library, then it has custom assertions for XML serialization, binary serialization, and data contract serialization.

theObject.Should().BeXmlSerializable();
theObject.Should().BeBinarySerializable();
theObject.Should().BeDataContractSerializable();

theObject.Should().BeBinarySerializable(
    options => options.Excluding(s => s.SomeNonSerializableProperty));