Comments on: Deserializing data into a dynamically loaded Assembly

By: Carsten Lund Jørgensen

Carsten Lund Jørgensen — Sun, 31 May 2009 21:02:51 +0000

Thank you so very very much.

I had the exact same problem, and your solution just worked perfectly. You just saved my day

By: Pearl

Pearl — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:09:57 +0000

Thankyou very much ………….
APpreciated your solution it works fine;
Kind of you!!!!

Cheeeers

By: Adrian Uifalean

Adrian Uifalean — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:22:23 +0000

Thank’s a lot; i have the same situation and this messege “Unable to find assembly …” it drives me insane; the solution with SerializationBinder works fine;

By: Alan Balkany

Alan Balkany — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:43:42 +0000

Wow, it worked! For three days I’ve been struggling to deserialize from a managed DLL. I kept getting the error “Parse Error, no assembly associated with Xml key”. Thanks!

Substituting your code for the SoapFormatter worked the first time. I’ve rearranged the code slightly to use any Stream:

public static void serialize(Object o, Stream stream)
{
//MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();
BinaryFormatter formatter = new BinaryFormatter();
formatter.AssemblyFormat
= System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.FormatterAssemblyStyle.Simple;
formatter.Serialize(stream, o);
//return stream.ToArray();
}

public static Object binaryDeserialize(Stream stream)
{
//MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream(bytes);
BinaryFormatter formatter = new BinaryFormatter();
formatter.AssemblyFormat
= System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.FormatterAssemblyStyle.Simple;
formatter.Binder
= new versionConfigToNamespaceAssemblyObjectBinder();
Object obj = (Object)formatter.Deserialize(stream);
return obj;
}

internal sealed class versionConfigToNamespaceAssemblyObjectBinder : SerializationBinder
{
public override Type BindToType(string assemblyName, string typeName)
{
Type typeToDeserialize = null;
try
{
string ToAssemblyName = assemblyName.Split(‘,’)[0];
Assembly[] Assemblies = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies();
foreach (Assembly ass in Assemblies)
{
if (ass.FullName.Split(‘,’)[0] == ToAssemblyName)
{
typeToDeserialize = ass.GetType(typeName);
break;
}
}
}

catch (System.Exception exception)
{
throw exception;
}
return typeToDeserialize;
}
}

By: Alexandre

Alexandre — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:04:48 +0000

This is great, very useful, exactly what I was looking for.

By: Mohit Gupta

Mohit Gupta — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:25:56 +0000

Excellent approach, Thanks.

But the DeSerialization fails if Generic Types are used. I posted some changes to the code that makes it work for Generic Types.

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2816458&SiteID=1&mode=1

By: gops

gops — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 16:06:37 +0000

Simply brilliant!

By: ActiveEngine Sensei

ActiveEngine Sensei — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 16:04:52 +0000

On a different note, TheCodeslinger has two posts related to Dynamic instantiation of objects that you might find interesting. I posted these two links on my blog:

http://activeengine.wordpress.com/2007/12/04/new-blood-in-deadwood/

Enjoy!

By: ActiveEngine Sensei

ActiveEngine Sensei — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 16:02:48 +0000

CLSA.Net has a nice DataPortal concept that allows you to copy objects via Web Services, remoting, and the MS Enterprise Services. The solution is similar to what you have worked out here.

Here’s a link to his site:

http://www.lhotka.net