Serialization Assembly. Is it needed or not?

Question

I have a .net 2.0 c# ClickOnce app and it connects to its data via Web Services. I\'ve been told that one way to potentially speed up the application is to generate a seria

Answer 1

It is really asking "Shall I pre-generate the serialization assemblies and include it in the deployed project or shall I fall back on the default of generating the assemblies on the fly?" Generally that won't hurt too much after the first hit perf-wise. Where it can play in is that the serialization assemblies are generated in %SYSTEMROOT%\TEMP. Which, in some cases, the process can't access, leading to fatal exceptions in most cases.