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Data Contract Serializer

.NET Framework 4

The Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) infrastructure uses the DataContractSerializer class as the default serializer. The topics in this section provide more details for using it as a stand-alone serializer.

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Serialization and Deserialization: Details how to use the DataContractSerializer class to serialize object graphs and deserialize XML documents into objects.

Schema Import and Export: Explains how to generate an XML Schema definition language (XSD) schema from a .NET Framework class, or how to generate code from an XSD schema document.

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DataContractSerializer

NetDataContractSerializer

DataContractAttribute

DataMemberAttribute

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Using Data Contracts

Data Transfer and Serialization

Data Contract Serializer

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