serialize objects to transfer into the messagequeue instance

Question

I was going through the msdn post of system.messaging namespace and come across a doubt about object serialization. I want to know that is it always important to that object must be xmlserializable in order to be transferred over a MessageQueue instance.

Second, if we are invoking the MessageQueue.Send member is this also means that we are using default System.Messaging.XmlMessageFormatter.

An explanation would be appreciative.

Thanks

Answer 1

you don't have to use xml, you can use BinaryMessage like this

   BinaryMessageFormatter formatter = new BinaryMessageFormatter();
   System.Messaging.Message message = new System.Messaging.Message(YourObject, formatter);

second, xml message is the default, although I have always used binary, xml is to bulky for almost all kind of scenarios.