A quick Serialization question

[wossname]

I want to write a class that holds lots of info about buildings. It'll hold all the normal stuff like address (that one's kinda important) and date of construction etc. But I'd like to have a small thumbnail image of the building too.

If I use serialization to save this to a binary file, will the image be saved too? Or just the other data?

Thanks.

AW.

[Edneeis]

Yes you can serialize images in a class no problem.

[PT Exorcist]

Serialization has the *BIG* problem that if you later want to update your class and load the saved serialized files that will throw an exception.

[Edneeis]

Yes it stores versioning info but this shouldn't be a problem. If you want to update your call you just inherit from the old one and make a new version in a new class. It can still be a bit of a pain but you can then manage the deserialization and adjust the return type for which ever version is needed.