The .NET Framework includes extensive support for serialization and
deserialization, allowing clients to explicitly and implicitly
serialize object instances and arbitrarily complex object graphs, and
allowing types a wide degree of control over how and where they are
serialized and deserialized.
This chapter introduces the support for object serialization and
deserialization that is built into the .NET Framework, and shows how
clients and objects can participate in the serialization and
deserialization process. Unless otherwise stated, the types mentioned
in this chapter all exist in the System or
System.Runtime.Serialization namespaces.
