Opinions on Expression Tree Serialization Library from CodePlex?

Question

did someone tried this code library and have opinion about it? http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/exprserialization

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Answer 1

It looks like the project was abandoned but I did some work on it and now it works with .NET 4.0 and Silverlight. I made bug fixes to their code and also made it more DAL-independent.

http://expressiontree.codeplex.com/

Answer 2

I have found that it cannot serialize custom closures and I am currently writing my own binary serializer. With that said the fact that expression tree serialization was not included in .net 4.0 is extremely dissapointing.

Answer 3

I'm using this library to serialize/deserialize "linq to object" queries. The library doing this pretty well. There was some problems, but I was able to fix them due to the library's open source. The problem that it's not supported any more.

Answer 4

Security aspects of this library are really scary to me. It's almost like executing an arbitrary code that came from configuration or through a request.

Answer 5

It's used in the client proxy for ADO.NET Data Services for performing LINQ queries against a RESTful service and having that query serialized and executed on the service. Works great in my experience.

If you want to test its usefulness, try out an ADO.NET Data Service .