OpenNxSerialization Framework
Copyright (C) 2006 - 2008 "NeXtreme Innovations"
[The Next eXtreme in ingenuity]
--- Introduction ---
OpenNxSerialization is an open source derivative of NxSerialization,
maintained by "NeXtreme Innovations" or resources thereof. It is available free
for Non-Profit use under the General Public License (GPL), a copy
of which is downloadable from http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.
"NeXtreme Innovations" retains all rights not specifically granted to you by GPL.
--- Installation/Un-Installation ---
Read Install.txt in Install folder for more details.
--- History ---
OpenNxSerialization 2.0 (August 05, 2008)
* Arrays and Collection serialization is now significantly faster.
* New surrogates for a lot of built-in types.
* Support for serialization of containers in System.Collections.Generic namespace.
* Support for serialization of BitVector32, BitArray and KeyValuePair objects.
* Support for serialization of Type objects.
* Surrogate redirection support now provided.
* Dynamic (on the fly) surrogates now supported.
* Major refactoring of the API.
* Quite a few enhancements and utilities everywhere.
OpenNxSerialization 1.5 (March 12, 2008)
* NxFormatter now implements IRemotingFormatter.
* New surrogates for a lot of built-in types.
* Support for serialization of ISerializable objects.
* Support for serialization of MarshalByRef objects.
* Support for generic versions of SerializeAs and DeserializeAs functions.
* Streaming context can now contain application specific items.
* Quite a few enhancements and utilities everywhere.
OpenNxSerialization 1.0 (CompactSerialization 2.5) (July 21, 2007)
* CompactSerialization 2.5 is now OpenNxSerialization 1.0.
* Support for multiple instances of TypeSurrogateSelector.
* Support for SerializeAs and DeserializeAs functions (faster and more compact).
* Reader does not close the base stream.
* Support to configure types using a config file.
* Quite a few enhancements and utilities everywhere.
CompactSerialization 2.0 (May 17, 2006)
* Support for .NET 2.0 Nullable types.
* Circular and shared references are now handled wisely.
* Support for permanent/hard type handles.
* Support for enumerations, SortedList etc.
* Major refactoring of the internal and public APIs.
* Improved performance at places and decreased at places :).
CompactSerialization 1.0 (Feb 15, 2006)
* Released the initial version of the framework.
--- Contact and Licensing ---
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