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title: "Serialization articles"
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published: "2003-03-13T03:48:00"
updated: "2003-03-13T03:48:00"
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author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Chris Sells is beginning to be ,it seems, one of my favorite .NET gurus. I seem to be checking out his site at least once a day and am tuned to any new stuff he writes there (at least on the RSS feed ). Also, Ive…"
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# Serialization articles

By Roy Osherove March 13, 2003

**Historical article** · Originally published March 13, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

[Chris Sells](http://www.sellsbrothers.com/) is beginning to be ,it seems, one of my favorite .NET gurus. I seem to be checking out his site at least once a day and am tuned to any new stuff he writes there (at least on the [RSS feed](http://www.sellsbrothers.com/news/rss.aspx)). Also, Ive downloaded and burned several .[NET rocks radio shows](http://www.franklins.net/dotnetrocks.asp), one of which has him as a guest , and i found myself driving around, listening to the show and even waiting in my car in front of my house for the show to end before I can get out and continue with my life. 

Now he's come up with a series of articles on serialization basics (in 3 parts), and although i know the very basics of the thing, i'll be sure to check out the little more advanced material presented there.  Here they are:

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## [Serialization Basics, Part 1 of 3](http://www.windevnet.com/documents/s=7481/win1044571786904/)

> This is the first of a 3 part series I wrote as an appendix to my WinForms book because I couldn't find the topic of object serialization covered adequately elsewhere in any of the popular texts.
>
> This part covers the basics of text and binary serialization for simple types.

## [Serialization Basics, Part 2 of 3](http://www.windevnet.com/documents/s=7481/win1045093344162/)

> Continuing the discussion of serialization in .NET using formatters for custom types.

## [Serialization Basics, Part 3 of 3](http://www.windevnet.com/documents/s=7481/win1046801931106/)

> My 3rd installment of the basics of serialization, this time covering how to customize the serialization process.


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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