"Hugh Robinson" <hrobinsonAL@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I am new to remoting and looking at what format to use to serialize my
> objects. I thought I'd do some tests and I can't understand why I am
> getting the results that I am. I am simply serializing a single int
> and it seems to take 54 bytes, not 4 as I would expect. If I were
> serializing a non-primitive object, I could understand that there's
> some header info etc., but a primitive?
>
> Also if I serialize 10 ints, it scales linearly and takes 540 bytes.
>
> Maybe I am using the MemoryStream class wrong?
> Thanks, Hugh
>
> Here's the simple code:
>
> try {
> IFormatter formatter = new BinaryFormatter();
> MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();
>
> int nTest=7;
> formatter.Serialize(stream, nTest);
>
> // this prints 54, not 4 as I would expect!
> Debug.WriteLine(stream.Length);
>
> // aby.Length is also 54...
> byte[] aby = stream.ToArray();
> } catch (Exception ex) {
> Debug.WriteLine(ex.Message);
> }