Question by Spεci · Nov 11, 2014 at 06:42 AM · serialization windows phone

How do you serialize things on Windows Phone?

I've pretty much done the serialization as in the Mike Geig's live training video.

http://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/modules/beginner/live-training-archive/persistence-data-saving-loading

The thing is that Unity allows me to build my project on Android. But when I try to build it on Windows Phone it says that System.Runtime.Serialization doesn't have Formatters.

So how do you do serialization on Windows Phone?

Here's my code:

 using UnityEngine;
 using System;
 using System.IO;
 using System.Collections;
 using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;
 
 public class SaveIt : MonoBehaviour {
 
     public float health = 0;
     public float mightyPowers = 0;
 
     public void Save()
     {
         Debug.Log("Saving");
         BinaryFormatter bf = new BinaryFormatter();
         FileStream file = File.Create(Application.persistentDataPath + "/player.dat");
 
         PlayerData data = new PlayerData();
         data.health = health;
         data.mightyPowers = mightyPowers;
 
         bf.Serialize(file, data);
         file.Close();
     }
     
     public void Load()
     {
         BinaryFormatter bf = new BinaryFormatter();
         if (File.Exists(Application.persistentDataPath + "/player.dat")) 
         {
             Debug.Log("Loading " + Application.persistentDataPath + "/player.dat");
             FileStream file = File.Open(Application.persistentDataPath + "/player.dat", FileMode.Open);
             PlayerData data = (PlayerData) bf.Deserialize(file);
             file.Close();
 
             health = data.health;
             mightyPowers = data.mightyPowers;
         }
     }
 
     // Use this for initialization
     void Start () {
         Load();
     }
 }
 
 [Serializable]
 class PlayerData {
     public float health;
     public float mightyPowers;
 }

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Mike-Geig ♦♦ · Nov 12, 2014 at 02:26 PM 0

It's possible that the libraries that the windows phone uses aren't the same. Since WP uses .NET 4.x, take a look at those libraries and see where the serializer classes are and how they are used. That is the main difference between WP and iOS/Android

Vekoro · May 25, 2015 at 02:03 PM 0

$$anonymous$$ike Geig, could you explain how to save on Windows Phone 8? I have the same problem, i was following the live training too.

Vekoro · May 26, 2015 at 09:06 AM 0

I have the same problem. I got the same code from the live training. I can build the game, but i become an error:

Reference Rewriter: Error: method System.Object System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter::Deserialize(System.IO.Stream) doesn't exist in target framework. It is referenced from Assembly-CSharp.dll at System.Void GameControl::Load().

UnityEngine.Debug:LogError(Object) PostProcessWP8Player:RewriteReferencesForAssembly(String, String, String, String, String, String, String) (at C:/buildslave/unity/build/PlatformDependent/WP8Player/Extensions/$$anonymous$$anaged/PostProcessWP8Player.cs:450) PostProcessWP8Player:$$anonymous$$ake$$anonymous$$anagedAssembliesWp8Compatible(String, String, LibraryCollection) (at C:/buildslave/unity/build/PlatformDependent/WP8Player/Extensions/$$anonymous$$anaged/PostProcessWP8Player.cs:411) PostProcessWP8Player:PostProcess(BuildTarget, BuildOptions, String, String, String, String, String, Guid) (at C:/buildslave/unity/build/PlatformDependent/WP8Player/Extensions/$$anonymous$$anaged/PostProcessWP8Player.cs:212) UnityEditor.BuildPlayerWindow:BuildPlayerAndRun()