what are the binary formatter ?

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public BinaryFormatter formatter = new BinaryFormatter();
     BinaryFormatter reader = new BinaryFormatter();

Posted 11-Apr-15 5:35am

Akbar Fardi

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Thomas Daniels · Answer 1 · 2015-04-11T05:54:00

See the documentation on MSDN:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.runtime.serialization.formatters.binary.binaryformatter%28v=vs.110%29.aspx[^]

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Serializes and deserializes an object, or an entire graph of connected objects, in binary format.

An explanation binary serialization can be found here:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/72hyey7b%28v=vs.110%29.aspx[^]

Abhinav S · Answer 2 · 2015-04-11T05:52:00

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The BinaryFormatter class[^] allows you to serialize and serialize objects in binary format.

This diagram compares three types of formatters - http://www.dotneat.net/content/binary/serializationScreenReviewBig.png[^].

No non .Net systems can understand binary format serialized code. However, these formatters gives the best performance.

Posted 11-Apr-15 5:52am

Abhinav S

Updated 11-Apr-15 5:53am

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Thomas Daniels 11-Apr-15 11:55am

+5

Abhinav S 11-Apr-15 11:58am

Thank you.