How to choose between protobuf-csharp-port and protobuf-net

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Published on 2010-03-26T10:09:32Z Indexed on 2010/03/26 10:13 UTC
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Hi Folks,

I've recently had to look for a C# porting of the Protocole Buffer library originally developped by Google. And guess what, I found two projects owned both by two very well known persons here: protobuf-csharp-port, written by Jon Skeet and protobuf-net, written by Mark Gravell. My question is simple: which one do I have to choose ?

I quite like Mark's solution as it seems to me closer to C# philisophy (for instance, you can just add attributes to the properties of existing class) and it looks like it can support .NET built-in types such as System.Guid.

I am sure both of them are really great projects but what's your oppinion?

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