C＃二进制序列化为变量

Question

I have a piece of code working that serialized a string into XML with XmlSerializer. I want to serialize the same string into binary and Not xml, I have tried different codes but none working, if possible please rewrite the following code to output me a serialized binary and store it in a variable.

public  class SerialTest
{
    public static void Main(string[] s)
    {
        String test = "ASD";
        string serializedData = string.Empty;                   

        XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(test.GetType());
        using (StringWriter sw = new StringWriter())
        {
            serializer.Serialize(sw, test);
            serializedData = sw.ToString();
            Console.WriteLine(serializedData);
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}

What I actually want is to have a code that serialize an object and give me the serialized binary as output in a variable and not XML.

Answer 1

If you need to store Binary Serialization output inside a string , for that you can use ToBase64String like following.

String test = "ASD";
string serializedData = string.Empty;
MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
BinaryFormatter binaryFormatter = new BinaryFormatter();
binaryFormatter.Serialize(memoryStream, test);
memoryStream.Flush();
memoryStream.Position = 0;
serializedData = Convert.ToBase64String(memoryStream.ToArray());