MCTS .NET Application Development Foundation - 70-536 – Objectives List Part 5

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Implementing serialization and input/output functionality in a .NET Framework application (18 percent)

• Serialize or deserialize an object or an object graph by using runtime serialization techniques
• Serialization interfaces
  • IFormatter interface
  • IFormatterConverter Interface
  • IDeserializationCallback Interface
  • ISerializable Interface
• Serialization attributes
  • OnDeserializingAttribute
  • OnSerializedAttribute
  • OnDeserializingAttribute
  • OptionalFieldAttribute
• SerializationEntry Structure
• SerializationInfo Class
• ObjectManager Class
• Formatter Class
• FormatterConverter Class
• FormatterServices Class
• StreamContext
• Control the serialization of an object into XML format by using the System.Xml.Serialization namespace
• System.Xml.Serialization Namespace
• XmlSerializer..::.Serialize Method
• XmlSerializer..::.Deserialize Method
• XML Serialization Attributes
• Implement XML serialization interfaces to provide custom formatting for XML serialization
• IXmlSerializable Interface
• Delegates and event handlers provided by the System.Xml.Serialization namespace
  • UnreferencedObjectEventHandler
  • XmlAttributeEventHandler
  • XmlElementEventHandler
  • XmlNodeEventHandler
  • XmlSerializationCollectionFixupCallback
  • XmlSerializationFixupCallback
  • XmlSerializationReadCallback
  • XmlSerializationWriteCallback
• Implement custom serialization formatting by using the Serialization Formatter classes
• System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters Namespace
• BinaryFormatter Class
• SoapFormatter Class
• Access files and folders by using the File System classes
• System.IO Namespace
• File Class
• FileInfo Class
• Directory Class
• DIrectoryInfo Class
• DriveInfo Class
• DriveType Enumeration
• FileSystemInfo
• FileSystemWatcher
• Path Class
• EventErrorArgs
• EventErrorHandler delegate
• RenamedEventArgs
• RenamedEventHandler delegate
• Manage byte streams by using Stream classes
• FileStream class
• Stream Class
• MemoryStream
• BufferedStream
• Manage .NET Framework application data by using Reader and Writer classes
• StringReader class
• StringWriter class
• TextReader class
• TextWriter class
• StreamReader class
• StreamWriter class
• BinaryReader class
• BinaryWriter class
• Compress or decompress stream information in a .NET Framework application and improve the security of application data by using isolated storage
• System.IO.Compression namespace
• DeflateStream class
• GzipStream class
• System.IO.IsolatedStorage Namespace
• IsolatedStorageFile class
• IsolatedStorageFileStream class

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