[Mono-list] Re: [Mono-list] System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter question

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello!

> > Is something known about that format (so I can start filling up the 
> > Mono's BinaryFormatter class), or I have to try to reverse-engineer it ?
> 
> If you want to reverse engineer it, that would be great.  It might be a
> long and time consuming task though.  You might also want to check out
> the laws regarding reverse engineering where you are - it might become
> impossible for you to work on the code for that class if you reverse
> engineered the MS one.

Another thing that you can do is look at the Rotor source code, and
write a description of the protocol and the encoding, and then have
someone else implement this function.

Miguel