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title: "What is serialization?"  
description: "What is serialization?"  
author: "Anchal Kesharwani"  
published: 2014-09-19  
updated: 2020-09-19  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/2158/what-is-serialization  
category: "c#"  
tags: [".net", "c#"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is serialization?

When we want to transport an object through network then we have to convert the object into a stream of bytes. The process of converting an object into a stream of bytes is called Serialization. For an object to be serializable, it should inherit ISerialize Interface.


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