Serialization
Experior saves a model by serializing all necessary model entities (actually their corresponding Info objects) into specific xml files and compressing those into an experior file.
Loading a model works vice versa, the experior file is uncompressed and each xml file it contains is deserialized.
The serializing and deserializing can be done using System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer.
However Experior also provides a utility class Experior.Core.Environment.Serialization to make this process simpler.
Example:
// Log all serializable types
List<Type> serializable = Experior.Core.Environment.SerializableTypes;
Experior.Core.Environment.Log.Write("We found " + ser.Count + " serializable types.");
foreach (var t in serializable)
{
Experior.Core.Environment.Log.Write(" : " + t.ToString());
}
// create the test.xml file and serialize the Info object of this assembly into it
Experior.Core.Environment.Serialization.Serialize("test.xml", this.Info);
// load the test.xml file and deserialize into a AssemblyInfo object
AssemblyInfo res = (AssemblyInfo)Experior.Core.Environment.Serialization.DeSerialize("test.xml", typeof(AssemblyInfo));