Dim formatter As New System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter()
Dim inStream As New System.IO.MemoryStream()
Dim inBytes As Byte() = System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes("c:\MySerializedFil.bin")
Dim MyBO As MyBoType

'-- Move the byte array into a stream
inStream.Write(inBytes, 0, inBytes.Length)

'-- Deserialize the object
MyBO = CType(formatter.Deserialize(inStream), MyBOType)

'-- Function to return the appropriate object from an array of bytes.

Private Function GetItem(data As Byte()) As TestSerializableItem

Dim formatter As New System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter()

using inStream As New System.IO.MemoryStream()



'-- used a test class that had the Serializable attribute set

Dim myItem As TestSerializableItem



'-- Move the byte array into a stream

inStream.Write(data, 0, data.Length)



'-- Deserialize the object. This always

Try

myItem = CType(formatter.Deserialize(inStream), TestSerializableItem)

Catch ex As Exception

End Try

End Using



Return myItem

End Function