Binary deserialization: get object data

Question

Is it possible to get data of the binary serialized object ( or list of othe same objects ) as it can be done in XML or soap. Please note, I have no idea about object structure ( private and public fields,etc)? By data of the binary serialized object I mean the values of all fields.

Answer 1

Lets say you have a stream.

            object yourData;
            var SerializeBinaryFileName = @"C:\Temp\binary.bf";

            using (Stream stream = File.Open(SerializeBinaryFileName, FileMode.Open))
            {
                BinaryFormatter bformatter = new BinaryFormatter();
                yourData = bformatter.Deserialize(stream);
                stream.Close();
            }

Then you have your object graph in the yourData variable. You can read it as any other object graph can be read.