Are methods also serialized along with the data members in .NET?

Question

The title is obvious, I need to know if methods are serialized along with object instances in C#, I know that they don\'t in Java but I\'m a little new to C#. If they don\'t

Answer 1

It may be easier to understand if you've learned C. A class like

class C
{
    private int _m;
    private int _n;

    int Meth(int p)
    {
       return _m + _n + p;
    }
}

is essentially syntactic sugar for

typedef struct
{
   int _m;
   int _n;
   // NO function pointers necessary
} C;

void C_Meth(C* obj, int p)
{
   return obj->_m + obj->_n + p;
}

This is essentially how non-virtual methods are implemented in object-oriented languages. The important thing here is that methods are not part of the instance data.