Deserialization backwards compatibility

Question

I am trying to deserialize \"SomeClass\" with an older version of an application. I get this below exception

System.Runtime.Serialization.Serializatio

Answer 1

It seems that one way to do this would be to have a versioned object, that way you could try deserializing the object using the latest version. If that didn't work, step back a version until it's successful. Then once you have your object, update it to the latest version of the object and use default values for any fields you don't have data for.