Use StreamWriter with BinaryFormatter

Question

I am developing a server-client application and I want to serialize a List of strings on the server side and send it to client side. I want to do the serialization using the BinaryFormatter class as follows:

List<String> myList = new List<String>();
ceva.Add("A");
ceva.Add("B");
ceva.Add("C!");
BinaryFormatter binaryFormatter = new BinaryFormatter();
binaryFormatter.Serialize(writer, myList);

My problem is that the writer streams is of type StreamWriter and the Serialize method expects as a first argument an object of type Stream.

Is there any way I can use my writer of StreamWriter type the way I try here?

Answer 1

You could use the StreamWriter.BaseStream property as a first argument of the Serialize method:

binaryFormatter.Serialize(writer.BaseStream, myList);

Answer 2

You can use like this.

List<String> myList = new List<String>();
ceva.Add("A");
ceva.Add("B");
ceva.Add("C!");
BinaryFormatter binaryFormatter = new BinaryFormatter();
binaryFormatter.Serialize(writer.BaseStream, myList);