If you want to Binary or XML Serialization in .NET Programming and you are using C#, you can use following code. using System; using System.IO; using System.Collections; using System.Runtime.Serialization; using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters; using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary; using System.Web.Mail; namespace npuInfoCS.Utilities {     public class Serialization     {         public enum SerializationFormat {Xml, Binary} [...]