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here is the answer from the documentation:
Serialization The .NET API provides the ability to convert an FMD or FID into a format that can be read serially. Serialization allows you to easily transmit and store data as byte strings, streams or XML. This allows you to transmit the data or save it to standard file systems. The XML format can be used within HTML for building browser-based applications. To return the data to its original format, deserialization is also provided. Note that serialized FMDs and FIDs include the version number of the .NET wrapper was used for the serialization. If you attempt to deserialize with an older version of the wrapper, the results may not be correct. So when deserializing, the .NET wrapper will throw an SDKException if the serialization was done using a later version of the wrapper. Serialization in the .NET Wrapper occurs using the default System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer. The name of the root element of the generated XML is the same as the object type. Each public member of the object is represented as an XML element. Raw byte data is encoded as a Base-64 string by XmlSerializer. Deserialization uses the same XmlSerializer. The XML that was serialized is fed into XmlSerializer where the elements with values become object members with values of the same name as the element.