[C#] serializing and deserializing a ListView

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ListView

serialization

Okay, so I'm trying to save ListView with its data through serialization. Using these two methods:

public static T BinaryFileDeserialize<T>(string filePath)
        {
            FileStream fileStream = null;
            Object obj;
            try
            {
                if (!File.Exists(filePath))
                    throw new FileNotFoundException("The file" + "was not found.", filePath);
                fileStream = new FileStream(filePath, FileMode.Open);
                BinaryFormatter b = new BinaryFormatter();
                obj = b.Deserialize(fileStream);
            }
            catch
            {
                throw;
            }
            finally
            {
                if (fileStream != null)
                    fileStream.Close();
            }

            return (T)obj;
        }

and

public static void BinaryFileSerialize(Object obj, string filePath)
        {
            FileStream fileStream = null;

            try
            {
                fileStream = new FileStream(filePath, FileMode.Create);

                BinaryFormatter b =
                    new BinaryFormatter();
                b.Serialize(fileStream, obj);
            }
            catch
            {
                throw;
            }
            finally
            {
                if (fileStream != null)
                    fileStream.Close();
            }
        }

Also, since I didn't include or write the methods to fit only this particular purpose of saving ListViews I'm trying - ye, that's correct, trying - to use these two in addition, like helpers:

public ArrayList SaveListView(ListView LV)
        {
            ArrayList alSavedLV = new ArrayList();

            for (int i = 0; (i <= animalList.Count - 1); i++)
            {
                alSavedLV.Add(LV.Items[i]);
            }

            return alSavedLV;
        }

        public ListView LoadListView(ArrayList AL)
        {
            ListView lv = new ListView();

            for (int i = 0; (i <= (AL.Count - 1)); i++)
            {
                ListViewItem lvi = new ListViewItem();
                lvi = ((ListViewItem)(AL[i]));
                lv.Items.Add(lvi);
            }

            return lv;
        }

However, as far as saving goes, I think it works. The deserialization part on the other hand doesn't come through, or at least it doesn't fill my ListView with the saved data. Any ideas? Where might I be going wrong?

Happy easter!