serialize object to MSDE binary datatype

[Matt Fielder]

I need to find a way of serializing an object to a field in an msde table.
What I'm serializing is a report definition of a 3rd party report generator.
It's normally stored as a file on the local file system (has built in
functionality to handle), but that's not an option for what I need. I'm
familiar with using a filestream to serialize and deserialize images to the
table, but this obviously isn't an image --- any help would be greatly
appreciated.

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Matt,

The way an image is serialized can be used in fact with any object.
You can as well however use often the binaryformater.

http://www.vb-tips.com/dbpages.aspx?...c-61641f5c8d9d

There are also more samples how to make a blob (image type(

I hope this helps,

Cor

"Matt Fielder" <mf****************@nospam.nospamschreef in bericht
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>I need to find a way of serializing an object to a field in an msde table.
What I'm serializing is a report definition of a 3rd party report
generator. It's normally stored as a file on the local file system (has
built in functionality to handle), but that's not an option for what I
need. I'm familiar with using a filestream to serialize and deserialize
images to the table, but this obviously isn't an image --- any help would
be greatly appreciated.

[Kevin Yu [MSFT]]

Hi Matt,

To serialize the object to a byte array, the object class must be marked
with SerializableAttribute. So that we can use the BinaryFormatter to
serialize it to the array and save it to database.

Kevin Yu
Microsoft Online Community Support

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[Matt Fielder]

Cor, That gets me going in the right direction - thanks, I appreciate it.

"Cor Ligthert [MVP]" <no************@planet.nlwrote in message
news:uI**************@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

Matt,

The way an image is serialized can be used in fact with any object.
You can as well however use often the binaryformater.

http://www.vb-tips.com/dbpages.aspx?...c-61641f5c8d9d

There are also more samples how to make a blob (image type(

I hope this helps,

Cor

"Matt Fielder" <mf****************@nospam.nospamschreef in bericht
news:ec**************@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

>>I need to find a way of serializing an object to a field in an msde table.
What I'm serializing is a report definition of a 3rd party report
generator. It's normally stored as a file on the local file system (has
built in functionality to handle), but that's not an option for what I
need. I'm familiar with using a filestream to serialize and deserialize
images to the table, but this obviously isn't an image --- any help would
be greatly appreciated.