C# Program to Check a Specified class is a Serializable class or not

Serialization is a method of converting an object into a stream of bytes that will be used to store the object in the database, or memory, or file, etc so that we can easily read back and convert it back to an object. So to check whether a specified class is serializable or not we use the IsSerializable property of the Type class. It will return true if the class is declared as serializable. Otherwise, it will return false.

Syntax:

public bool IsSerializable { get; }

Example 1:

C#

// C# program to check whether the given
// class is serializable class or not
using System;
using System.Reflection;

// Declare a serializable class
[Serializable] class Geeks1
{
    public static void Display()
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Hello! Geeks1");
    }
}

// Declare a normal class
class Geeks2
{
    public static void Show()
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Hello! Geeks2");
    }
}

class GFG{

// Driver code
static void Main()
{

    // Check whether the specific class is Serializable or not
    Console.WriteLine("Is Geeks1 class is serializable or not?:" +
                      typeof(Geeks1).IsSerializable);
    Console.WriteLine("Is Geeks2 class is serializable or not?:" +
                      typeof(Geeks2).IsSerializable);
}
}

Output:

Is Geeks1 class is serializable or not?:True
Is Geeks2 class is serializable or not?:False

Example 2:

C#

// C# program to check whether the given
// class is serializable class or not
using System;
using System.Reflection;

// Declare a serializable class
[Serializable] class Geeks
{
    public static void Display()
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Hello");
    }
}

class GFG{

// Driver code
static void Main()
{

    // Checking whether the class is serializable or not
    // Using IsSerializable property
    if (typeof(Geeks).IsSerializable == true)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("The given class is serializable");
    }
    else
    {
        Console.WriteLine("The given class is not serializable");
    }
}
}

Output:

The given class is serializable