[dba-VB] C# serialization

John,

Typed datasets ARE serialized.  That's the point.

Charlotte Foust 

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Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 9:44 AM
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Subject: Re: [dba-VB] C# serialization

I am under the impression that you can write ANY repeating sequence such
as these grade classes to XML and read them back rather easily, using
serialization.  However the only examples I am seeing are from back in
100, 2002, 2004.  A lot has happened since then, so I figured to get
modern examples of the same thing.  Google is not being my friend ATM.

As I said, I did this in VB, but cannot find my old code.

I will certainly end up doing the database thing, but I want to get the
basic C# syntax down before I go there.  I am still thumbing through my
book for the simplest little things.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Gustav Brock wrote:
> Hi John
> 
> Oh, I don't regard myself as a master in C# and you will probably
learn something that is new to me. However, coming from Access, I went
straight ahead for the database (dataset) stuff as I can see people are
wasting endless hours writing primitive SqlCommand code as if nothing
has happened since classic ASP or VB4.
> 
> For very simple applications you may not need much more than your
current task: write your values to an ini .. sorry xml file and read it
back at the next launch. For this, no database engine is needed, not
even Access/JET, but XML files fit nicely this purpose (and more).
> 
> /gustav
> 
> 
>>>> jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com 13-10-2009 18:13 >>>
>  > Of course, I can see an educational purpose by handcrafting a kind
of database, but ...
> 
> LOL.  Well, this is after a CLASS in C# the purpose of which is to 
> LEARN C#.  You do not start at typed data sets, you start with "this 
> is a variable" and "this is a for loop".  I am very much at that
level.
> 
> I am quite sure that in a year I will be throwing out typed datasets 
> with the best of them but right now I am still forgetting to put a ;
at the end of the line.
> 
> Have patience Master #2.
> 
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
> 
> 
> Gustav Brock wrote:
>> Hi John
>>
>> Sounds like a quite normal database app to me ...
>>
>> If so, all the typed dataset stuff is ready at your hands.
>> To persist (to an XML file without the overhead you claim about) use
method WriteXml.
>> To read it at load, use method ReadXml. Can't be simpler.
>>
>> Of course, I can see an educational purpose by handcrafting a kind of
database, but ...
>>
>> /gustav

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