Serialize and Deserialize (C#)

Question

How can deserialize one class to another class like this:

var ser = SerializedObject(b);// read from Database!

var des = DeSerializeAnObject(ser, typeof(BaseClass));

BaseClass baseclass = (BaseClass)des;

baseclass.Hello();

Answer 1

Are you sure it's really serialization/deserialization you're after? Sounds to me like what you're looking for is code to map (ie copy selected or all properties) one object to another.

Have a look at the AutoMapper Getting Started Guide .

In following with your example you could do something like this

BaseClass baseClass = Mapper.Map<OtherClass, BaseClass>(b);

I'm also somewhat confused with your choice of class names in your example. If "BaseClass" really is a base class of OtherClass then you'd just do a cast instead but I'm going to guess that's not the case.

Answer 2

a deserialize sample is like ...

    public BaseClass DeSerializeAnObject(BaseClass bc)
    {
        if (bc == null) return bc;

        IFormatter formatter = new BinaryFormatter();
        using (Stream stream = new MemoryStream())
        {
            formatter.Serialize(stream, bc);
            stream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
            return (BaseClass)formatter.Deserialize(stream);
        }
    }