Support More Useful .NET Types for Serialization about aqlaserializer HOT 4 CLOSED

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You can use surrogates. This is a feature of the original protobuf-net. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7046506/can-i-serialize-arbitrary-types-with-protobuf-net

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Again thank you for this very quick reply! :-)

True, this Surrogate approach at least cleans up the code a bit (will change my current work-around in this way). But technically it makes no difference (correct me if I should be wrong):
for each instance (and there are 100,000s of them) of Point, Rectangle, ... used in the data structure an additional (useless) object needs to be created on serialization and deserialization.

But with a direct support of these types this would not be needed.

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@ab-tools
I'm not 100% sure but you can use structs (not classes) as surrogates to not clutter up heap. If it's possible then performance hit should be negligibly small.

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Good idea, works good - also with struct!

Then I will leave it like this and use your solution starting from now (I already removed all the legacy "protobuf" attributes ;-) ). It's definitely a progress compared to protobuf-net!

Thanks again for the great support
Andreas

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