Store a Serializable Object to a File - CSharp File IO

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Description

Store a Serializable Object to a File

Demo Code

using System;//from w w w .  j  a v a  2 s  .c  o  m
using System.IO;
using System.Collections;
using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap;
using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;
class MainClass
{
   private static void BinarySerialize(ArrayList list)
   {
      using (FileStream str = File.Create("people.bin"))
      {
         BinaryFormatter bf = new BinaryFormatter();
         bf.Serialize(str, list);
      }
   }
   private static ArrayList BinaryDeserialize()
   {
      ArrayList people = null;
      using (FileStream str = File.OpenRead("people.bin"))
      {
         BinaryFormatter bf = new BinaryFormatter();
         people = (ArrayList)bf.Deserialize(str);
      }
      return people;
   }
   private static void SoapSerialize(ArrayList list)
   {
      using (FileStream str = File.Create("people.soap"))
      {
         SoapFormatter sf = new SoapFormatter();
         sf.Serialize(str, list);
      }
   }
   private static ArrayList SoapDeserialize()
   {
      ArrayList people = null;
      using (FileStream str = File.OpenRead("people.soap"))
      {
         SoapFormatter sf = new SoapFormatter();
         people = (ArrayList)sf.Deserialize(str);
      }
      return people;
   }
   public static void Main()
   {
      ArrayList people = new ArrayList();
      people.Add("G");
      people.Add("L");
      people.Add("A");
      BinarySerialize(people);
      SoapSerialize(people);
      ArrayList binaryPeople = BinaryDeserialize();
      ArrayList soapPeople = SoapDeserialize();
      foreach (string s in binaryPeople){
         Console.WriteLine("\t" + s);
      }
      foreach (string s in soapPeople){
         Console.WriteLine("\t" + s);
      }
   }
}

Result


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