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Serialization

Started by stacyh3, Sep 02 2010 10:29 PM

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#1 stacyh3

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Posted 02 September 2010 - 10:29 PM

Reflection.Serialize/Deserialize seems to work fine in the emulator, but not on the actual hardware. Is it not implemented in the release? Is it planned? Thanks, Stacy

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#2 Chris Walker

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Posted 03 September 2010 - 04:13 AM

Hi Stacy, I'd have to double-check, but I don't think that serialization is supported on the Netduino. I'll check into it for you though. There are tradeoffs for codespace vs. flash, available RAM, etc. Since Netduino is open source, you might be able to compile it into your own firmware. I'll check on that too. Chris

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#3 greg

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Posted 03 September 2010 - 11:34 AM

Hi Stacy,

I'd have to double-check, but I don't think that serialization is supported on the Netduino. I'll check into it for you though.

There are tradeoffs for codespace vs. flash, available RAM, etc. Since Netduino is open source, you might be able to compile it into your own firmware. I'll check on that too.

Chris

I don't think Serialization is available on any of the .net platforms (Netduino or Fez). Besides, for a microcontroller serialization is SLOW.

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#4 amphibian

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Posted 03 September 2010 - 11:50 AM

Given that there is no Reflection.Serialize in the stock firmware, or BitConverter classes in MF period, what's the best way to convert value types to arrays of bytes and vice versa?

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#5 CW2

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Posted 03 September 2010 - 11:57 AM

Given that there is no Reflection.Serialize in the stock firmware, or BitConverter classes in MF period, what's the best way to convert value types to arrays of bytes and vice versa?

Currently, this is limited to Utility.ExtractValueFromArray and Utility.InsertValueIntoArray methods. I am planning to implement BitConverter functionality in a custom firmware.

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#6 stacyh3

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Posted 03 September 2010 - 12:23 PM

I don't think Serialization is available on any of the .net platforms (Netduino or Fez). Besides, for a microcontroller serialization is SLOW.

Slow depends on the application don't you think? For my application it's okay it it's a bit slow. I need to deserialize once at startup and then the intervals between serialization are pretty long - on the order of minutes to hours.

In any case, if people are using the emulator, be aware that Reflection.Serialize and Reflection.Deserialize work fine, but they appear not to be in the Netduino firmware. This is not a major problem for me since I just implemented my own code for what I need, but it's good to know what's there and what's not.