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Peter Kuhn explains how to work around some Data Contract Serializer issuses on WP7.

Source: Mister Goodcat

Last time I've blogged about how I like the data contract serializer to persist data in tombstoning situations on the Windows Phone. Since then, I was contacted by a few developers who had problems with some of the implications that kind of serialization has. The reason for this partly is that designing your types for serialization is not as trivial as it seems at first, but also due to some very misleading information you'll run into when you receive errors during the process of serialization. So I decided to put together a list of requirements and pitfalls you have to take into consideration when you want to use the data contract serializer.

This article is compatible with the latest version of Silverlight.

Recently I had to work with JSON files and more especially with serialization and deserialization using Silverlight and .NET. The information I found was very limited, so I had to figure it out by myself. When I managed, I decided to write it down for people who would have had the same problems as me.