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Migrating from FlowChart 4.3 to 5.x
Nov 5th, 2009 at 4:52pm
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Hi,
My company has been using Flowchart.NET Standard version 4.x for a few years, and we (and our customers) have been very happy with it. One feature that we've found particularly useful is the binary serialization of the flowchart, as well as the serialization of its tagged objects.

When version 5 was released, we opted to postpone updating our codes to reference it due to scheduling concerns.

We recently purchased Flowchart.NET Pro version 5.3. I was hoping to take advantage of some of its features for my codes that are currently referencing v4.3, but I'm not sure if I can because of the namespace changes between versions 4 and 5.

Is there any way to allow binary deserialization of v4.3 files within a code using v5, so that my customers can open their older files? Is there any sort of conversion utility available? I would hate to tell my customers that they can't open their files anymore, simply because I changed some dll's in the source code.

Thanks.
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Re: Migrating from FlowChart 4.3 to 5.x
Reply #1 - Nov 5th, 2009 at 5:04pm
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Hi,

The binary deserialization has backward compatibility and you should be able to open v4 files with version 5. However if you use the built-in tag serialization, that might not work if your own application assembly name has changed. You might also add to your application the ability to save and load through xml - xml files are easier to load after assembly name changes.

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