Binary Serialization does not work

[winkert]

I am using this Date struct in a SortedDictionary and it is throwing a SerializationException. I see that this is using the ISerializable interface but does not have the serialization constructor. I added the [Serializable] attribute in order to get it to serialize but when it tries to deserialize I get the following exception:
The constructor to deserialize an object of type 'System.Date' was not found.

[winkert]

FYI: Adding the [Serializable] attribute and then adding the following constructor resolved this issue:
private Date(SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context) { this._dt = DateTime.FromFileTime(info.GetInt64("ticks")); }

[supersonicclay]

@winkert can you check the class I have in the binary branch?

[winkert]

@claycephas I realized as I was working on my own application that the constructor I put up is not correct. DateTime.FromFileTime() does not turn ticks to an accurate DateTime (I was struggling to understand why when I deserialized I was getting dates in the 3000s). There is a DateTime constructor that takes ticks and that is how I managed to get the information stored in the SerializationInfo (as ticks) to reload as a Date.