Error: The type is not supported because it implements IDictionary.
Ferris Beuller asked me in response to my previous post:
Why can the serializer not serialize types that implement IDictionary? SortedList in types cannot be serialized, you get an InvalidOperationException with the innerexception of {"The type System.Collections.SortedList is not supported because it implements IDictionary."}
The serializer should be able to serialize any type as long as it is marked serializable. SortedList is marked serializable. So, you should not be getting this error. I was able to run the following test without getting any errors.
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;
using System.IO;
namespace SerializeDict
{
public class Test
{
public static void Main()
{
MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();
BinaryFormatter bf = new BinaryFormatter();
SortedList list = new SortedList();
list.Add(10, 100);
list.Add(100, 1000);
bf.Serialize(stream, list);
stream.Position = 0;
bf = new BinaryFormatter();
list = (SortedList)bf.Deserialize(stream);
Console.WriteLine(list[100]);
}
}
}
Can you share a reproducible sample with me where you get the error?
