serialization in C#

As per your question, i suggest you to understand serialization first and then its uses or advantages.

So, what is serialization?

When you create an object in a .NET Framework application, you probably never think about how data is stored in the memory. The .NET Framework takes care of that for you. However if you want to store the contents of an object to a file, send an object to another process, or transmit it across the network, you do have to think about how the object is represented because you will need to convert it to a different format. This conversion is called serialization.

Many applications need to store or transfer data in objects. To make these tasks as simple as possible, the .NET Framework provides several serialization techniques. These techniques convert objects into binary, Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) or XML documents that can be easily stored, transferred, and retrieved.

Serialization can save lot of development time. Before serialization was available developers had to write custom code just to store or transfer information. Of course, this code tended to break when they made changes elsewhere to the application. Now a days, with the .NET Framework we can store and transfer data with just a couple of lines of code. In fact, they rarely find the need to modify the default serialization behavior - it just works..

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Ayappan Alagesan9y ago
serialization is mostly used for accessing "JSON" file.
The Data from json file will be an object without any shape,serialization will mold the data and given in proper array format.
Naveen Bisht9y ago
Please read blow blog

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/serialization-in-C-Sharp-and-net/
Hassan Uddin Mughal9y ago
As per your question, i suggest you to understand serialization first and then its uses or advantages.
So, what is serialization?
When you create an object in a .NET Framework application, you probably never think about how data is stored in the memory. The .NET Framework takes care of that for you. However if you want to store the contents of an object to a file, send an object to another process, or transmit it across the network, you do have to think about how the object is represented because you will need to convert it to a different format. This conversion is called serialization.

Many applications need to store or transfer data in objects. To make these tasks as simple as possible, the .NET Framework provides several serialization techniques. These techniques convert objects into binary, Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) or XML documents that can be easily stored, transferred, and retrieved.

Serialization can save lot of development time. Before serialization was available developers had to write custom code just to store or transfer information. Of course, this code tended to break when they made changes elsewhere to the application. Now a days, with the .NET Framework we can store and transfer data with just a couple of lines of code. In fact, they rarely find the need to modify the default serialization behavior - it just works..

Good Luck!