Re: Serialization and inheritance

Gerben,

Unfortunately, no, you can not. You need to have a reference to the
assembly that contains the type you are going to serialize so that the
serialization framework will be able to load the appropriate type/field data
for serialization.

Hope this helps.


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- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mvp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"Gerben" <plzdonotreply@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:dlfoav$iv$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hello,
>
> I'm getting an error when I try to serialize a class in my project. Hope
> someone can help me out:
>
> Shared assembly:
>
> [Serializable]
> public abstract class Person
> {
> public int PersonData;
> }
>
> Project1
>
> [Serializable]
> public class Student : Person
> {
>
> }
>
> Person person1 = new Student();
>
> Project2:
>
> I like to serialize person1 (using .net remoting) so I can use that object
> in this project. Project2 only knows the person class, but that is enough
> since I only need to access PersonData and nothing else. When I try this
> i'm getting a serializable exception that says that project2 cannot find
> Project1. But I don't want to include project1 or the student class. Is
> there a way to solve this / can I tell Student to only serialize the
> Person data in some way?
>
> greets,
>
> Gerben.
>


.

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