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Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803237800

Length 818 pages

Edition 7th Edition

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.NET

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Server Side Web Development

Author (1):

Mark J. Price

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Hello, C#! Welcome, .NET!

2. Speaking C# FREE CHAPTER

3. Controlling Flow, Converting Types, and Handling Exceptions

4. Writing, Debugging, and Testing Functions

5. Building Your Own Types with Object-Oriented Programming

6. Implementing Interfaces and Inheriting Classes

7. Packaging and Distributing .NET Types

8. Working with Common .NET Types

9. Working with Files, Streams, and Serialization

10. Working with Data Using Entity Framework Core

11. Querying and Manipulating Data Using LINQ

12. Introducing Web Development Using ASP.NET Core

13. Building Websites Using ASP.NET Core Razor Pages

14. Building Websites Using the Model-View-Controller Pattern

15. Building and Consuming Web Services

16. Building User Interfaces Using Blazor

17. Epilogue

18. Index

Serializing object graphs

An object graph is multiple objects that are related to each other either through a direct reference or indirectly through a chain of references.

Serialization is the process of converting a live object graph into a sequence of bytes using a specified format. Deserialization is the reverse process. You would do this to save the current state of a live object so that you can recreate it in the future, for example, saving the current state of a game so that you can continue at the same place tomorrow. Serialized objects are usually stored in a file or database.

There are dozens of formats you can specify, but the two most common ones are eXtensible Markup Language (XML) and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON).

Good Practice: JSON is more compact and is best for web and mobile applications. XML is more verbose but is better supported in more legacy systems. Use JSON to minimize the size of serialized object graphs. JSON is also a good choice...