Deserializing object

14 Sep 2006 6:45 PM

Søren M. Olesen

Hi

Is there any way (at all) that an object beign deserialized from a stream
can know (or figure out) that it has been created because of a deserialize
process rather than by a "normal" object instiantiation ??

TIA

Søren

14 Sep 2006 7:20 PM

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"Søren M. Olesen" <smole***@hotmail.com> wrote in
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> Is there any way (at all) that an object beign deserialized from a
> stream can know (or figure out) that it has been created because of a
> deserialize process rather than by a "normal" object instiantiation ??
>

Maybe u can create a property "IsDeserialized" and flag the object during
deserialization?

14 Sep 2006 9:38 PM

tommaso.gastaldi@uniroma1.it

Søren M. Olesen ha scritto:

> Hi
>
> Is there any way (at all) that an object beign deserialized from a stream
> can know (or figure out) that it has been created because of a deserialize
> process rather than by a "normal" object instiantiation ??

How about this :

<Serializable()> Class YourObject

<nonserialized()> Public HasBeenNormallyInstantiated As Boolean =
True

'Other properties ...

End Class

the flag HasBeenNormallyInstantiated will hold the answer because when
deserialized will be false. Will be true when YourObject "normally"
instantiated.

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> TIA
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> Søren

14 Sep 2006 10:23 PM

Tom Shelton

Søren M. Olesen wrote:

> Hi
>
> Is there any way (at all) that an object beign deserialized from a stream
> can know (or figure out) that it has been created because of a deserialize
> process rather than by a "normal" object instiantiation ??
>
>
> TIA
>
> Søren

Well yes... If you implement the ISerializable interface, then you
will have to add a constructor like:

Public Sub New (ByVal info As SerializationInfo, ByVal context As
StreamingContext)

This constructor will be called when the object is deserialized.

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Tom Shelton

15 Sep 2006 4:54 AM

Søren M. Olesen

Thanks a lot for all your replies, they have been very helpfull!!

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> Hi
>
> Is there any way (at all) that an object beign deserialized from a stream
> can know (or figure out) that it has been created because of a deserialize
> process rather than by a "normal" object instiantiation ??
>
>
> TIA
>
> Søren
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