Chapter 8. Serialization Formatters

In this chapter, we’ll develop a custom serialization formatter capable of plugging into the .NET Remoting infrastructure. Before we do that, we’ll examine the architecture that the .NET Framework uses to serialize object instances. We’ll also look at several of the classes that the .NET Framework defines that facilitate building a serialization formatter. Finally, we’ll develop a client formatter sink and a server formatter sink that we’ll use to serialize the .NET Remoting messages exchanged between remote objects.