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ReflectionHelper

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This class makes getting MemberInfos easy, without the use of magic strings (so it is refactoring friendly) and also allows you to create delegates to do fast accesses to those items, much faster than the normal Invoke, GetValue or SetValue methods.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;
using Pfz.Extensions;

namespace Pfz.Serialization.BinaryBuiltIn
{
	/// <summary>
	/// Serializer for any [Serializable] class (using reflection).
	/// </summary>
	public sealed class SerializableSerializer<T>:
		ItemSerializer<T>
	{
		/// <summary>
		/// Gets the singleton instance.
		/// </summary>
		public static readonly SerializableSerializer<T> Instance = new SerializableSerializer<T>();

		private static readonly FieldInfo[] _fields;

		/// <summary>
		/// Initializes and validates a serializer for the given generic parameter type.
		/// </summary>
		static SerializableSerializer()
		{
			if (!typeof(T).IsSerializable)
				throw new ArgumentException("Type argument T must be serializable, but " + typeof(T).FullName + " is not. Are you missing a [Serializable] attribute?");

			if (typeof(ISerializable).IsAssignableFrom(typeof(T)))
				throw new ArgumentException("This serializer is not capable of serializing ISerializable objects and type " + typeof(T).FullName + " is ISerializable. Use SerializableInterfaceSerializer instead.");

			var fields = new List<FieldInfo>();
			var type = typeof(T);
			while(type != null)
			{
				var thisLevelFields = type.GetFields(BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.DeclaredOnly);
				fields.AddRange(thisLevelFields);
				type = type.BaseType;
			}

			_fields = fields.ToArray();
		}

		private SerializableSerializer()
		{
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Serializes the serializable item.
		/// </summary>
		public override void Serialize(ConfigurableSerializerBase serializer, T item)
		{
			object[] array = item as object[];
			if (array != null)
			{
				serializer.Stream.WriteCompressedInt32(array.Length);
				var elementType = array.GetType().GetElementType();
				foreach(var arrayItem in array)
					serializer.InnerSerialize(arrayItem, elementType);

				return;
			}

			var values = FormatterServices.GetObjectData(item, _fields);
			int count = values.Length;
			for(int i=0; i<count; i++)
				serializer.InnerSerialize(values[i], _fields[i].FieldType);
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Deserializes a [Serializable] item.
		/// </summary>
		public override T Deserialize(ConfigurableSerializerBase deserializer)
		{
			if(typeof(T).IsArray)
			{
				int count = deserializer.Stream.ReadCompressedInt32();
				Type elementType = typeof(T).GetElementType();
				object[] array = (object[])Array.CreateInstance(elementType, count);
				for(int i=0; i<count; i++)
					array[i] = deserializer.InnerDeserialize(elementType);

				return (T)(object)array;
			}

			object result = FormatterServices.GetSafeUninitializedObject(typeof(T));
			int count2 = _fields.Length;
			if (count2 == 0)
				return (T)result;

			object[] values = new object[count2];
			for(int i=0; i<count2; i++)
				values[i] = deserializer.InnerDeserialize(_fields[i].FieldType);

			FormatterServices.PopulateObjectMembers(result, _fields, values);
			return (T)result;
		}
	}
}

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I started to program computers when I was 11 years old, as a hobbyist, programming in AMOS Basic and Blitz Basic for Amiga.
At 12 I had my first try with assembler, but it was too difficult at the time. Then, in the same year, I learned C and, after learning C, I was finally able to learn assembler (for Motorola 680x0).
Not sure, but probably between 12 and 13, I started to learn C++. I always programmed "in an object oriented way", but using function pointers instead of virtual methods.

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