如何序列化.NET远程处理（.NET Framework 3.5 SP1）的数据集？

Question

I use the binaryFormatter to serialize objects for sending. But as for the ADO.NET dataset, what is the best practice? I noticed that binary formatter is override by xmlformatter in case of dataset? how to reduce the size & increase the serialization speed?

Answer 1

You can tell it to use binary-mode instead of the legacy xml mode:

myData.RemotingFormat = SerializationFormat.Binary;

You can also try running the serializer through GZipStream or DeflateStream , but this would probably require sending it as a BLOB rather than direct remoting.

I've also done some recent work looking at pushing DataTable through protobuf-net, here, including comparison metrics - even if you don't want the protobuf-tweaks, the data of numbers should help you choose between xml/binary and vanilla/gzip/deflate.