More Serialization Questions--Specific example of what I need to do

[Shane Story]

My other thread on serialization seemed to be stagnant and I still have
questions, so I decided to post this example of what I need to know.

I am trying to use binaryformatter. I have no trouble saving (serializing),
but when I go to deserialize I always get errors. It appears that I cannot
set a breakpoint or anything to discover where the problem is.

I am serializing by implementing ISerializable: The GetObjectData method
and the custom Constructor.

The last problem I got was an exception--TargetInvocationException class to
be exact.

My object model has things like the following to deal with:

MDIForm (which has a bunch of frmA's) frmA which has a Workspace object.
This object has some members of intrinsic data types and then some other
members that are other objects.

For the sake of this newsgroup let me give an example scenario:

Workspace has a reference to the form that "owns" it (this is not
serializable of course).

So imagine
class Workspace
private A as single
private B as single
private ParentForm as frmA
private objSomething as Something
end class

class Something
'class something has a reference to the parent Workspace object to which
it belongs
private ParentWorkSpace as workspace
end class

my thought was, in GetDataObject for workspace object to just do the
following:
info.addvalue("A",A)
info.addvalue("B",B)
info.addvalue("objSomething",Something)

and then in the specialized contstructor for deserializing
A=info.getsingle("A")
B=info.getsingle("B")

objSomething=ctype(info.getvalue("objSomething",ge ttype(something)),something)
'then at this point, maybe call a method on objSomething to set the
parent workspace object
'reference to this object
objSomething.SetParentWorkspace=me

I would do the same thing to the Workspace object itself after being
deserialized, it would set the ParentForm with a method.

I have read the aricle from around 2001-2 by Jeffery Richter and think I may
not be able to rely on reseting references in the constructor and perhaps I
should implement IDeserializationCallBack and somehow in there set the
reference.

Since I have collection of objects and those objects need to have a
reference to the parent form--where they will be painting, would I be able
to deserialize this and how?

Am I on the wrong track?

Any more ideas and suggestions would be appreciated.

I found another article but it was on .NET 2.0. Is that out yet? Or is that
just part of Whidbey that hasn't really yet materialized?

Thanks,

Shane