[Mono-list] Serialization problem between Mono and .NET

[Augusto Radtke]

After I readed your e-mail I got this in my mind quickly, it's obviously
difficult to serialize generics and I remember now because of some work I
have done on C++ templates serialization.

One thing that is interesting is that MS .NET marks the Dictionary class as
[Serializable] and so it's supposed to work, anyway I got that I should
avoid remoting generic types.

Just for curiosity, if I make a generic class marshalled by reference, do
you know if it will work?

Augusto

On 1/20/07, Robert Jordan <robertj at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> Augusto Cesar Radtke wrote:
> > Hello, I'm facing this error when trying to exchange some structure like
> > Dictionary <> between Mono and .NET using Remoting:
> >
> > Parse Error, no type associated with Xml key a2
> > System.Collections.Generic.IEquatableOfTEqualityComparer`1[[
> System.String,
> > mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
> > PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089]] mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0,
> > Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089
> >
> > I have already research a lot about it and I think it can be
> serialization
> > incompatibility between Mono and .NET, I have read that even between
> > different .NET Framework versions this could occur, but I'm not totally
> > sure.
> >
> > I'm using the SOAP serialization by setting [Serializable] attribute in
> the
> > class. Should I implement the ISerializable interface instead of this?
> Will
> > this fix my problem or there is another way to circumventing this?
>
> SOAP is a dead end for generic types.
>
> MS.NET 2.0 SOAP doesn't support generic types at all, while
> Mono's implementation partially supports them by mistake.
>
> The .NET 2.0 remoting and binary serialization support
> will be available in the next Mono release.
>
> Robert
>
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