What is the benefit of turning Generate Serialization Assemblies off?

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oliver-clare picture oliver-clare · May 31, 2012 · Viewed 14.7k times · Source

The Generate Serialization Assemblies option in Visual Studio creates a MyAssembly.XmlSerializers.dll when my project is built. This question (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/934411/what-is-myassembly-xmlserializers-dll-generated-for) indicates a reason why it's there in the first place, and some of the answers provide ways to turn it off, but my question is why would you choose to turn it off? Does having it turned on cause problems in certain situations (and, if so, what are those situations)?

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Ondrej Svejdar picture Ondrej Svejdar · Dec 12, 2013

Only problems you might be facing are with build tools - such as msbuild, because if you use sgen from x32 SDK on assembly that is explicitly x64 it will raise a build-time error (you can easily overcome this by setting correct SGenToolPath path to msbuild or target MSIL instead). IMHO it is better to deal with build time issues and have quicker startup time.

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