how to serialize/deserialize an assembly object to and from a byte array

Question

Let\'s say a create an (executable) assembly in memory by compiling a code string. Then I want to serialize this assembly object into a byte array and then store it in a da

Answer 1

System.Reflection.Assembly is ISerializable and can simply be serialized like so:

Assembly asm = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
BinaryFormatter formatter = new BinaryFormatter();
MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();
formatter.Serialize(stream, asm);

and deserialization is just as simple but call BinaryFormatter.Deserialize instead.