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Serializing hashtable in library

Hello.

I'm trying to serialize my own hashtable which contains another hashtable object that's located in a library. I've marked most of the classes in the library as [Serializable], that appeard to be working at first, but at the end I get:

Failed to serialize. Reason: Type 'System.Threading.Thread' in Assembly 'mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' is not marked as serializable.

How do I get further now? I can't seem to get it right.

Thanks for reading.

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naveenkohli

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Hmm.

The only public thread related is a propery field:

public ThreadPriority ThreadPriority
{
..
}

which I can set from the main program referencing the library.

The rest are either private or internal. I'll try and remove this priority and see what happends.

I should mention that I have some events in the library which the main program uses. These two are public delegate and public event.

existenz2

What kind of values are you putting in the Hashtable? If any of those includes a Thread it will be almost unpossible to serialize unless you do what naveenkohli suggests.

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I'm inserting a long value as the key, then the entire Hashtable object from the library as the value.

eg: o.Add(something, HashtableObjectFromLibrary);

Perhaps if I copied the HashtableObjectFromLibrary to a local temporary hashtable and then added that instead, so it would be like:

Copy(HashtableObjectFromLibrary, SomeLocalHashtable);

Then do: o.Add(something, SomeLocalHashtable);

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This is all done inside a thread in the main program which runs off an event from the library.

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Well.

Now I tried changing it a bit, so now I'm storing the entire class from the library as an object in the Hashtable.

o.add(something, objectofclass);

I'm still getting threading issues. Is this realted to my events? They're of type public delegate and public event, which the main program has a thread running on.

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Hehe, you\re right. Marking the delegates and events dident work, but doing it on the private declarations Thread, ManualResetEvent got past that.. now it complains about:

Failed to serialize. Reason: Type 'System.Diagnostics.Process' in Assembly 'Sys

This could go very far.

Ill just keep going marking everything as NonSerialize.

Let me see if I can figure out how to split this.