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copied!<p>I have a question for which I suspect the answer is a bit complex. At this moment I am programming a DLL (class library) in C#. This DLL uses a 3rd party library and therefore deals with 3rd party objects of which I do not have the source code. Now I am planning to create another DLL, which is going to be used in a later stadium in my application. This second DLL should use the 3rd party objects (with corresponding object states) created by the first DLL.</p> <p>Luckily the 3rd party objects extend the <code>MarshalByRefObject</code> class. I can marshal the objects using <code>System.Runtime.Remoting.Marshal(...)</code>. I then serialize the objects using a <code>BinaryFormatter</code> and store the objects as a <code>byte[]</code> array. All goes well. I can deserialize and unmarshal in a the opposite way and end up with my original 3rd party objects...so it appears...</p> <p>Nevertheless, when calling methods on my 3rd party deserialized objects I get object internal exceptions. Normally these methods return other 3rd party objects, but (obviously - I guess) now these objects are missing because they weren't serialized.</p> <p>Now my global question: how would I go about marshalling/serializing all the objects which my 3rd party objects reference...and cascade down the "reference tree" to obtain a full and complete serialized object? Right now my guess is to preprocess: obtain all the objects and build my own custom object and serialize it. But I'm hoping there is some other way...</p>

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