Serializing of System.Windows.Ink.StrokeCollection

Question

I need to transmit throught the net complex object System.Windows.Ink.StrokeCollection. How can I serialize it? This type do not implements ISerializable interface. I am using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter for serializing.
I already thinking about XML serialization of open field of my strokes collection and transmiting this XML as common string, but it will create a greater load on the network and affect the overall performance. Is there any way to serialize my collection to a byte array to transmit it?

Answer 1

The StrokeCollection has a Save(Stream) method which Saves the StrokeCollection to the specified Stream.

Here is a way of serializing StrokeCollection

var memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
using (memoryStream)
{
    StrokeCollection strokeCollection; //Your stroke collection ommitted the declaration
    strokeCollection.Save(ms);
    ms.Position = 0;
}

Now when you want to deserialize it back you can pass the MemoryStream to the constructor of the StrokeCollection.

More can be found here. That's how I would do it.