In this computer science programming lesson, you will what serialization is and why it is used. You’ll learn how to use VB.NET to serialize and desterilize an instance of a class via the JSON format. This can be used to save the state of an object to a file or a database, or to transmit object properties across a network. You will get the most out of this lesson if you’re an experience programmer and you are already familiar with object oriented programming, and coding classes in VB.NET.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:45 Serialization definition
01:41 The need for serialization
02:52 A simple custom object to serialize
05:05 Serialization with a BinaryFormatter (DON’T DO THIS)
09:12 WARNING about the BinaryFormatter
10:11 The JavaScript Object Notation JSON
12:17 Install Newtonsoft JSON.NET
14:05 Serialize an object to a JSON string
15:12 Serialize an object to a JSON file
16:53 Deserialize a JSON string to an object
18:40 Deserialize a JSON file to an object
19:47 Serialize properties of an object conditionally