what does 'serialize' means?

I am working with exception managment block and I came across "Serializing a BaseApplicationException Object"

thanks
nath

There's a lot of info on this at MSDN, but basically serialization is the process of taking an object that's in memory and converting it to a form that can be stored or transported.

For example, you may want to take an object and transport over the network so another process can use it, or persist an object to disk that saves the user's current settings.

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