Agents.NervousSystem Deserialize(string openFile)
{
// Declare the hashtable reference.
Agents.SerializableNS ns = null;
// Open the file containing the data that you want to deserialize.
FileStream fs = new FileStream(openFile, FileMode.Open);
try
{
BinaryFormatter formatter = new BinaryFormatter();
// Deserialize the hashtable from the file and
// assign the reference to the local variable.
ns = (Agents.SerializableNS)formatter.Deserialize(fs);
return(new Agents.NervousSystem(ns));
}
catch (SerializationException e)
{
Console.WriteLine("Failed to deserialize. Reason: " + e.Message);
throw;
}
finally
{
fs.Close();
}
}
void Serialize(Agents.SerializableNS ns, string outFile)
{
FileStream fs = new FileStream(outFile, FileMode.Create);
// Construct a BinaryFormatter and use it to serialize the data to the stream.
BinaryFormatter formatter = new BinaryFormatter();
try
{
formatter.Serialize(fs, ns);
}
catch (SerializationException e)
{
Console.WriteLine("Failed to serialize. Reason: " + e.Message);
throw;
}
finally
{
fs.Close();
}
}
