I haven't done this myself, but when I asked the same question a while ago, I was told the solution was to write a custom IFormatProvider implementation and register it in your .config file (or programmatically) instead of the built-in format provider.
So instead of listing the built-in formatter provider in your config file like so (using binary as an example): <formatter ref="binary"/> you'd list your own there instead: <formatter type="YourNamespace.YourFormatProvider, YourAssembly, ..." /> Then YourFormatProvider would implement IFormatProvider.GetFormat so that it instantiated your serialization surrogate, instantiated the built-in BinaryFormatter passing in your serialization surrogate to it, and then returns the reference to the newly initialized binary formatter. Hopefully that gets you on your way... -Mike DevelopMentor http://staff.develop.com/woodring > -----Original Message----- > From: Moderated discussion of advanced .NET topics. > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Abdulla, Jehangir > Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 7:09 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Passing a Surrogate to the > BinaryFormatter used by the Remoting infrastructure > > > This may be a stupid question, I need to pass a Surrogate > Selector to the BinaryFormatter that is used by the Remoting > infrastructure, any ideas on how this can be done. I thought > maybe the BinaryClientFormatterSink or the > BinaryServerFormatterSink would have a property that allows > me access to the Formatter but that wasn't the case. > On the same note, if I can pass in my own SurrogateSelector I > could also pass in my own custom Binder to the Formatter ? > Any ideas guys on how this can be done ? > Thanks, > John >
