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What is the purpose of [Serializable]?
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It is an attribute that tells the framework that an object can be serialized (converted in and out of text), typically XML.

MSDN has a reasonable description here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.serializableattribute.aspx[^]
 
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You can also try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialization[^] for explanation and code samples in a few languages.
 
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Sandesh M Patil 27-Jul-10 11:33am    
Reason for my vote of 1
i m asking in .Net
Try this: C# serializable[^]
 
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