Adding more control by implementing ISerializable

That would get more control over serialization, how to save and load types

Implement ISerializable interface and create an empty constructor to compile

[Serializable]
public class Item : ISerializable
{
    private string _name;

    public string Name
    {
        get { return _name; }
        set { _name = value; }
    }

    public Item ()
    {

    }

    protected Item (SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context)
    {
        _name = (string)info.GetValue("_name", typeof(string));
    }

    public void GetObjectData(SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context)
    {
        info.AddValue("_name", _name, typeof(string));
    }
}

For data serialization, you can specify the desired name and the desired type

info.AddValue("_name", _name, typeof(string));

When the data is deserialized, you will be able to read the desired type

_name = (string)info.GetValue("_name", typeof(string));

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