Framework Design Guidelines: Serialization Technology

Continuing in our weekly blog post series that highlights a few of the new additions to the Framework Design Guidelines 2 nd edition .. This content is found in the Serialization section of Chapter 8: Usage Guidelines. While it is great to have base framework with so many tools, knowing when to use which is super important. 8.10. 1 Choosing the Right Serialization Technology to Support Any given type can support none, one, or more of the serialization technologies. CONSIDER supporting Data Contract Serialization, if instances of your type might need to be persisted or used in Web services. See section 8.10.2 for details on supporting Data Contract Serialization. CONSIDER supporting the XML Serialization, instead or in addition to Data Contract...(read more) ...