Some background about my problem:
I have a lot of classes that implement ISerializable and are designed to be serialized using the explicit BinaryFormatter methods:
.ctor(SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context) and void GetObjectData(SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context)
I have recently discovered that BinaryFormatter does not always call the constructor when deserializing an object.
Supposedly, the BinaryFormatter is supposed to be copying the object graph bit-for-bit into memory, and so doesn't call the constructor on the 'Already Constructed' object.
This is not working for me: My private members are always null references when OnDeserialized is called and the constructor had not run.
This could potentially be resolved if I could still retrieve the serialized data collected by GetObjectData, but I cannot find anything but the constructor that gives me access to the SerializationInfo object.
My question, then:
Is there any way, other than .ctor(SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context), to retrieve the values that were collected during void GetObjectData(SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context)?
Or:
Any clue how the BinaryFormatter decides whether to call the constructor or not? If I could just force the BinaryFormatter to always use the constructor, I believe my problem would be solved.
