HOWTO: Serialize and deserialize FlashChart for storing in session variable

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[C#]
<%@ Page language="C#"%>
<%@ Register tagprefix="FC" Namespace="Aurigma.Charting" Assembly="Aurigma.Charting" %>

<%@ Import Namespace="System.Reflection"%>
<%
// Create an instance of the FlashChart
FlashChart objFlashChart = new FlashChart();

//  Fill it with data
objFlashChart.Data.SetDimension(3,1);
objFlashChart.Data.DataCategories[0].Caption = "Income";

objFlashChart.Data.DataSeries[0].Caption = "June";
objFlashChart.Data.DataSeries[0][0] = 10;

objFlashChart.Data.DataSeries[1].Caption = "July";
objFlashChart.Data.DataSeries[1][0] = 20;

objFlashChart.Data.DataSeries[2].Caption = "August";
objFlashChart.Data.DataSeries[2][0] = 40;

// Save it to file
objFlashChart.Save(Server.MapPath("Serialized.swf"));

// Start serialization
// First we should get Type object, which represent a type of Flash Chart class
Type objChartType  = objFlashChart.GetType();

// After it just call necessary method via InvokeMember method. Read about it more

// detailed in .NET Framework SDK. 
// Draw attention on the first and next to last parameters. 
// The first one is a name of the method, the next to last is an instance of FlashChart. 
// Array objChartData will hold serialized FlashChart
Object objChartData = objChartType.InvokeMember("SaveViewState", 
	BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.InvokeMethod | BindingFlags.Instance, 
	null, 
	objFlashChart, // Here we should pass our FlashChart object

	null);

// Save serialized data to Session variable
Session["FlashChart"] = objChartData;

%>
<p>Flash Chart is serialized!</p>

[C#]
<%@ Page language="C#"%>

<%@ Register tagprefix="FC" Namespace="Aurigma.Charting" Assembly="Aurigma.Charting" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.Reflection"%>

<%
// Create an instance of the FlashChart
FlashChart objFlashChart = new FlashChart();

// Deserialize it from session variable

// objChartData	is an array which contains serialized data.
// It should be taken from Session variable (or somewhere else where you store it).

// Draw attention how we create the array. It is an array with one entry which. 
// contains an array we retrieve from Session. Why we do it so tricky? The last parameter of the 
// InvokeMember method is an array which holds parameters of calling method. So it should contain 
// as much entries as amount of parameter of given method. In our case it is the single parameter - 
// array of serialized data. In the first sample we passed null into last parameter, because method
// SaveViewState does not require any parameters.

Object[] objChartData = new Object[1];

objChartData[0] = Session["FlashChart"]; 

Type objChartType  = objFlashChart.GetType();

// Deserialize our chart from objChartData 
objChartType.InvokeMember("LoadViewState", 
	BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.InvokeMethod | BindingFlags.Instance, 
	null, 
	objFlashChart, // Here we should pass our FlashChart object

	objChartData); // Here we pass data for deserialization

// Save it to file
objFlashChart.Save(Server.MapPath("Deserialized.swf"));

%>
<p>Flash Chart is deserialized!</p>