I have a newbie question about serialization

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Apoligies in advance. for my newbie question.

The Release Notes for the 4.1 SDK say -
Currently, USBizi (FEZ Mini, FEZ Domino, FEZ Rhino, FEZ Panda) does not support serialization.

this refers to -

[quote]Level interrupts are not supported in this release. Edge interrupts are supported.

XTEA encryption support : GHIElectronics.NETMF.System.XTEA
Dropped NETMF’s cryptography support.
Fixed: SPI baudrate settings.
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right

I’m thinking about a lot of things… can some one clarify or give me an Idea of what this applies to.

Thanks.

[Gus_Issa]

Those are many notes about the SDK, serialization is not supported on USBizi and this has nothing to do with other items you listed from the release notes

http://www.tinyclr.com/release-notes/

[ransomhall]

Alex -

I’ve found the XML classes in NETMF to be a ‘work in progress’. They tend eat up precious memory quickly and we’ve found a bug or two along the way. See [url]http://www.tinyclr.com/forum/1/3488/[/url] for a bug example. That’s not to say you can’t crank out a class that will transform an object into xml. You can, it’s just not as easy as in the full framework.

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Thanks Gus and EricH… Im just busy, busy, busy… Thanks for the tips, happy coding

[Gus_Issa]

@ EricH XML?! I think he is talking about serializing object, right?

[ransomhall]

@ Gus - sorry, must be I was still in day job mode. I do occasionally mix up which classes do what between frameworks and wonder why stuff doesn’t compile!

@ Alex - I have written NETMF that serves up XML over HTTP that can be deserialized by a client running the full framework, but that is obviously not the same thing under the hood :

Here’s a (somewhat dated) quote from Elze Kool’s blog on the topic:

XML serialization is not available on the Micro Framework and Binary serialization goes different then on the desktop and compact .NET versions.

How can I serialize then?

Through the Reflection class. This class is used to get information of classes and objects in C#. With .NET Micro Framework this class has two extra methods: Reflection.Serialize() and Reflection.Deserialize(). These methodes handle the serialization. The binary serialized byte array thats generated can be stored in a file, send trough a network, with RF, etc… One drawback is that its not compatible with the desktop and compact .NET versions of binary serialized objects.

Full article at http://www.microframework.nl/2008/11/17/binary-serialization-with-micro-framework/

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Thanks for the Info ErickH and Gus, I was wondering wich one (serialization); TTL, CMOS, XML, SOAP, ect… or just some. I want to place the small FEZmini in a compact environment, to up link data through Bluetooth, Xbee, Internet, or any other means; to a CPU, Smart Phone, and what not ( I know theres many protocols to do that)

Sorry for any confusion.

Thanks.

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…EricH, your XML project looks very neat, theres many apps for that.