How can I deserialize or repair a binary serialized dictionary that hasn't completed serialization?
When I used my app, take a closer look, it tried to serialize a 300KB dictionary. Due to the lack of disk space, it could only write 292KB. Is there a way to successfully deserialize whatever is there?
I have used BinaryFormatter and if I have lost some elements this way, it is better than losing my entire dictionary.
When I deserialize I get this exception:
e.Message "The input stream is not a valid binary format. The starting contents (in bytes) are: 20-01-20-20-20-FF-FF-FF-FF-01-20-20-20-20-20-20-20 ..."
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Allocating binary streams does require a lot of implementation knowledge. BinaryFormatter
is proprietary, so ... if this data isn't really valuable, it might be cheaper to consider it lost. You can do a lot of scrobbling, but it won't be easy and the development time isn't cheap.
I am not saying that this cannot be done. FWIW, I can think of ways to do this for some other serializers - just not BinaryFormatter
.
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