I am trying to serialize a class to be sent to a server where the server will use that object. I am using Microsoft's example of an asynchronous client/server setup for this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bew39x2a.aspx I am using the binary formatter.
To test this, I am using this class:
[Serializable]
class Class1
{
public int x = 10;
public string banana = "banana";
}
and attempting to serialize it with:
Class1 example = new Class1();
IFormatter formatter = new BinaryFormatter();
Stream stream = new MemoryStream();
formatter.Serialize(stream, example);
in order to send it to the server, I need to send a string:
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader( stream );
string text = reader.ReadToEnd();
server.Send(text);
stream.Close();
but this doesn't work. I have tried converting the stream to a byte[] as seen here but I keep getting a Stream was unreadable
exception when testing this in the debugger.