What is Serialization in ASP.NET?

As a programmer you will often need to send objects to another location, you may also need to convert them to an appropriate format. So, what will you do? One of the solution is Serialization. The .NET Framework 2.0 provides built-in classes to convert data to formats that are portable, or easy to transport to another location. This process of converting data into a portable format is called Serialization.