SerializationContext Class
Visual Studio 2012
Defines the context of a serialization operation.
Namespace:
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Modeling
Assembly: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Modeling.Sdk.11.0 (in Microsoft.VisualStudio.Modeling.Sdk.11.0.dll)
The SerializationContext type exposes the following members.
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
 | SerializationContext(DomainXmlSerializerDirectory) | Create a serialization context with no source/destination location information. |
| SerializationContext(DomainXmlSerializerDirectory, String) | Create a serialization context with given source/destination location. |
| SerializationContext(DomainXmlSerializerDirectory, String, SerializationResult) | Create a serialization context with given source/destination location and SeralizationResult. |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Directory | A serializer instance needs to look up for other serializer instances during serialization/deserialization, so this directory provides the lookup service. |
| Item | Indexer to access properties stored in this context. The property name is compared by case-sensitive ordinal string comparison. If a property already exists in the context, setting it will override the old value with the new value. If a property doesn't exist in the context, getting it will return null, therefore setting a property to null will remove it from the context (i.e. null and non-existing values are not distinguishable). |
| Location | In read operation, this is the source's location; in write operation, this is the destination location. Usually this is a file path, but it can be other format as well, depending on the underlying source/destination. It can be null as well if the location is not available, e.g. serializing to a string buffer. |
| Result | This is the SerializationResult collected from all serializers participating in the current serialization operation. |
| WriteOptionalPropertiesWithDefaultValue | Whether optional properties with default value should be written out during serialization. |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Equals | Determines whether the specified object is equal to the current object. (Inherited from Object.) |
| GetHashCode | Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.) |
| GetType | Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.) |
| ToString | Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object.) |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| TransactionContextKey | Unique key used to identify SerializationContext instances in the TransactionContext property bag |
