NameValueCollection Serialization Deserialization

[Mike Logan]

We are trying to serialize the Request.ServerVariables collection
(NameValueCollection) to an XML formatted string, to insert into a database.
The problem we are running into is that most of the example that we find
discuss writing to a file. Does anyone have a simple function to do this?

We would also like to deserialize the string from the database back into a
NameValueCollection.

--
Mike Logan

[Karl Seguin]

It's sad, but you can't use the XmlSerializer for this. the only easy/good
alternative I know of is to use the SoapFormatter:

NameValueCollection values = new NameValueCollection();
values.Add("one", "two");
values.Add("a", "b");

SoapFormatter ser = new SoapFormatter();
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
ser.Serialize(ms, values);
byte[] b = ms.GetBuffer();
string s = Encoding.Default.GetString(b);
ms.Close();

you'll need to add a reference to
System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.dll

Karl

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"Mike Logan" <Mi*******@community.nospam> wrote in message
news:24**********************************@microsof t.com...

We are trying to serialize the Request.ServerVariables collection
(NameValueCollection) to an XML formatted string, to insert into a database. The problem we are running into is that most of the example that we find
discuss writing to a file. Does anyone have a simple function to do this?

We would also like to deserialize the string from the database back into a
NameValueCollection.

--
Mike Logan

[Mike Logan]

Thanks Karl! This will help tremendously. Can this string be deserialized
back into a NameValueCollection as well?

"Karl Seguin" wrote:

It's sad, but you can't use the XmlSerializer for this. the only easy/good
alternative I know of is to use the SoapFormatter:

NameValueCollection values = new NameValueCollection();
values.Add("one", "two");
values.Add("a", "b");

SoapFormatter ser = new SoapFormatter();
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
ser.Serialize(ms, values);
byte[] b = ms.GetBuffer();
string s = Encoding.Default.GetString(b);
ms.Close();

you'll need to add a reference to
System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.dll

Karl

--
MY ASP.Net tutorials
http://www.openmymind.net/
"Mike Logan" <Mi*******@community.nospam> wrote in message
news:24**********************************@microsof t.com...

We are trying to serialize the Request.ServerVariables collection
(NameValueCollection) to an XML formatted string, to insert into a

database.

The problem we are running into is that most of the example that we find
discuss writing to a file. Does anyone have a simple function to do this?

We would also like to deserialize the string from the database back into a
NameValueCollection.

--
Mike Logan

[Karl Seguin]

Yes, if you pull up the documentation for SoapFormatter you'll see....but,
as you probably could have guessed, there's a Deserialize function ;)

Karl

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"Mike Logan" <Mi*******@community.nospam> wrote in message
news:9D**********************************@microsof t.com...

Thanks Karl! This will help tremendously. Can this string be deserialized
back into a NameValueCollection as well?

"Karl Seguin" wrote:

It's sad, but you can't use the XmlSerializer for this. the only easy/good alternative I know of is to use the SoapFormatter:

NameValueCollection values = new NameValueCollection();
values.Add("one", "two");
values.Add("a", "b");

SoapFormatter ser = new SoapFormatter();
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
ser.Serialize(ms, values);
byte[] b = ms.GetBuffer();
string s = Encoding.Default.GetString(b);
ms.Close();

you'll need to add a reference to
System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.dll

Karl

--
MY ASP.Net tutorials
http://www.openmymind.net/
"Mike Logan" <Mi*******@community.nospam> wrote in message
news:24**********************************@microsof t.com...

We are trying to serialize the Request.ServerVariables collection
(NameValueCollection) to an XML formatted string, to insert into a

database.

The problem we are running into is that most of the example that we find discuss writing to a file. Does anyone have a simple function to do this?
We would also like to deserialize the string from the database back into a NameValueCollection.

--
Mike Logan