This is a more or less general development question, but here goes...
I am developing a Windows GUI app using Visual Studio .NET 2008. I want to store objects in the database, not in a separate file that the database points to. The question is: Should I use the XMLSerializer and output to a string, which I save in a text data field. Or, should I serialize to an XML datatype in the database? Is there any advantage to using the XML datatype when it comes to serializing and deserializing an object?
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