This attribute is used to mark the class a serializable and associate a unique identifier with it. The attribute is used by the serializer that automatically scans the registered assemblies and registers all classes annotated with this attribute. A class that has not been marked with this attribute is not automatically registered by the serializer and must be registered manually in order to be correctly recognized during deserialization.

This interface is implemented by classes that can be serialized or deserialized using the QuickSilver's custom serialization scheme.

Interface implemented by objects that can have their contents serialized to a string or deserialized from a string representation.

This class represents serialization-related information about the serialized object.