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

In most cases, you aren't likely to see a huge benefit from this, especially if you keep the app open for a while. Pre-generating a serialization assembly mainly helps the first time (in an exe lifetime) that you serialize a specific type as xml.