Because it is maybe of interest for someone I decided to do this post about What does the binary format of serialized .NET objects look like and how can we interpret it correctly? I have based all my research on the .NET Remoting: Binary Format Data Structure specification. Example class: To have a working example, … Read more
This could work (instead of your override). public override Type BindToType(string assemblyName, string typeName) { var m = Regex.Match(typeName, @”^(?<gen>[^\[]+)\[\[(?<type>[^\]]*)\](,\[(?<type>[^\]]*)\])*\]$”); if (m.Success) { // generic type var gen = GetFlatTypeMapping(m.Groups[“gen”].Value); var genArgs = m.Groups[“type”] .Captures .Cast<Capture>() .Select(c => { var m2 = Regex.Match(c.Value, @”^(?<tname>.*)(?<aname>(,[^,]+){4})$”); return BindToType(m2.Groups[“aname”].Value.Substring(1).Trim(), m2.Groups[“tname”].Value.Trim()); }) .ToArray(); return gen.MakeGenericType(genArgs); } return GetFlatTypeMapping(assemblyName,typeName); } … Read more
You could create a serialization surrogate. Imagine that we have a class defined in a referenced assembly that we have no control over that looks like this: public class Person { public string Name { get; set; } public int Age { get; set; } public DriversLicense License; } // An instance of this type … Read more