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Class serialization/deserialization using Base64 encoding

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  1. using System;
  2. using System.IO;
  3. using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;
  4.  
  5. namespace ConnectionClasses
  6. {
  7.     [Serializable]
  8.     public abstract class Connection
  9.     {
  10.         public int ID { get; set; }
  11.  
  12.         public String Name { get; set; }
  13.  
  14.         public string SerializeToBase64String()
  15.         {
  16.             return Connection.SerializeToBase64String(this);
  17.        }
  18.  
  19.        public static string SerializeToBase64String(Connection connection)
  20.         {
  21.             using (var ms = new MemoryStream())
  22.             {
  23.                 new BinaryFormatter().Serialize(ms, connection);
  24.                 ms.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
  25.                 return Convert.ToBase64String(ms.ToArray());
  26.             }
  27.         }
  28.  
  29.         public static Connection DeserializeFromBase64String(String str)
  30.         {
  31.             using (var ms = new MemoryStream(Convert.FromBase64String(str)))
  32.             {
  33.                 ms.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
  34.                 return (Connection) new BinaryFormatter().Deserialize(ms);
  35.             }
  36.         }
  37.     }
  38. }

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