IPAddress class serializable?

[George Tsiokos]

Microsoft's documented the IPAddress class as serializable:

[Serializable]
public class IPAddress

When I try to serialize it, I get the following error message:

System.Net.IPAddress cannot be serialized because it does not have a default
public constructor.

Any ideas?

[Govind_Kanshi]

Would you mind posting illustrative code which results in the problem ?

Are you trying to remote an instance of IPAddress ?

The following variation seems to work...

IPAddress ip = IPAddress.Parse("157.124.5.25");

IFormatter objFormatterToStream = new SoapFormatter();

Stream toStream = new FileStream("ipdump.xml", FileMode.Create,
FileAccess.Write, FileShare.None);

objFormatterToStream.Serialize(toStream, ip);
toStream.Close();

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[George Tsiokos]

[Serializable]
public struct Computer
{
public String name;
public IPAddress ipAddress;
}

This doesn't work, when for example, you try to return this structure from a
method:

private Computer[] computerList;

[WebMethod]
public Computer[] List()
{
return computerList;
}

The error is: System.Net.IPAddress cannot be serialized because it does not

have a default public constructor.

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