Example of a serializable exception in C#

2020-03-12

I’m just saving this here for future reference: here’s an example of a serializable exception in C#:

Some things of note:

It has a [Serializable] attribute
It implements a deserializing constructor XmlValidationException(SerializationInfo, StreamingContext)
It overrides GetObjectData(SerializationInfo, StreamingContext)

Also included is a battery of unit tests to verify that the class really does serialize and deserialize itself properly:

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