Static fields and Serialization

I'm trying to understand why static fields are not serializable in
general. Is it purely because of implementation reasons or because it
does not make sense to do this?

re: Static fields and Serialization

antoan <antoan@antoan.plus.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> I'm trying to understand why static fields are not serializable in
> general. Is it purely because of implementation reasons or because it
> does not make sense to do this?[/color]

Serialization persists the state of a single object. Static fields are
not part of the state of an object - they're effectively the state of
the type.

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re: Static fields and Serialization

Jon Skeet [C# MVP] wrote:[color=blue]
> antoan <antoan@antoan.plus.com> wrote:[color=green]
>> I'm trying to understand why static fields are not serializable in
>> general. Is it purely because of implementation reasons or because it
>> does not make sense to do this?[/color]
>
> Serialization persists the state of a single object. Static fields are
> not part of the state of an object - they're effectively the state of
> the type.
>[/color]
Thanks Jon, exactly what I was looking for.

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