Thursday, October 20, 2005

Nine reasons not to use serialization

There's a good article on The Code Project that explains why you shouldn't use serialization to store data. The root problem is that the information that gets serialized out is strongly typed. In other words, whatever wrote that data out, better be the same thing that read it back in again. Should your code change it's data structures, trying to read in serialized data from a previous version will break the code. That kinda defeats the purpose of using XML to store data. And not in a good way.

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