ISerializable and backward compatibility
- by pierusch
hello
I have to work an an old application that used binaryFormatter to serialize application data into filestream (say in a file named "data.oldformat")
without any optimizazion the main class has been marked with attribute
<serializable()>public MainClass
.......
end class
and the serialization code
dim b as new binaryformatter
b.serialize(mystream,mymainclass)
In an attempt to optimize the serialization/deserialization process I simply made the class implement the ISerializable interface and wrote some optimized serialization routines
<serializable()>public MainClass
implements ISerializable
.......
end class
The optimization works really well but I MUST find a way to reatrive the data inside the old files for backward compatibility.
How can I do that??
Pierluigi
