Sterling

Key Features

* Saves complex object graphs, including children of children to any depth, including classes and structs * Handles both properties and fields * Suppress serialization by type, property, or field * Handles cycle detection and circular references * Is dirty support using a user-supplied predicate * In memory database * Elevated trust database for Silverlight OOB applications that uses the local file system instead of isolated storage * Isolated storage versions for Silverlight and Windows Phone * File system version for the server/CLR desktop * Table definitions can be added "on the fly" * Easy configuration: provide a table type, a key type, and a lambda expression for the key and you're ready to start saving and loading * Support for interfaces and abstract classes (serializes the implemented type) * "Save as" to save derived types to the base class * Full foreign key support: child objects are saved in separate tables * Compact binary serialization leaves smaller footprint on disk than JSON, XML, and other serialization strategies