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

This is not relevant to your situation, but there's another good reason for pre-generating the serialization assembly - it's necessary when hosting your code in SQL Server (i.e. SQLCLR). SQL Server doesn't allow these assemblies to be generated dynamically, so your serialization code would fail inside SQL Server.