Describes the source and destination of a given serialized stream, as well as a means for serialization to retain that context and an additional caller-defined context.

For a list of all members of this type, see StreamingContext Members.

System.Object
   System.ValueType
      System.Runtime.Serialization.StreamingContext

[Visual Basic]
<Serializable>
Public Structure StreamingContext
[C#]
[Serializable]
public struct StreamingContext
[C++]
[Serializable]
public __value struct StreamingContext

[JScript] In JScript, you can use the structures in the .NET Framework, but you cannot define your own.

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are safe for multithreaded operations. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

Remarks

Indicates the source or destination of the bits that the formatter is using. Classes with surrogates or implementing ISerializable can serialize or ignore fields and values based on the information stored in the streaming context. For example, a window handle is still valid if State has the State CrossProcess value set, but not with the CrossMachine or File value set.

Requirements

Namespace: System.Runtime.Serialization

Platforms: Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 2000, Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional, Windows Server 2003 family

Assembly: Mscorlib (in Mscorlib.dll)

See Also

StreamingContext Members | System.Runtime.Serialization Namespace | State | XML and SOAP Serialization