BinaryFormatter serialization size.

27 Jul 2006 5:28 PM

Ken Varn

How can I determine the size of the data that a BinaryFormatter will produce
when serializing an object? I basically want to know how many bytes an
object with SerializableAttribute will produce if it is serialized to a
stream.

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28 Jul 2006 8:17 AM

Frans Bouma [C# MVP]

Ken Varn wrote:

> How can I determine the size of the data that a BinaryFormatter will
> produce when serializing an object? I basically want to know how
> many bytes an object with SerializableAttribute will produce if it is
> serialized to a stream.

You can't determine that up front, so you have to determine that
using a memorystream and checking the size of the stream after
serializing the data into the memorystream.

FB

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