Circumventing the KB957543 .NET 3.5 SP1 Regression Bug

A couple of days ago I hit a regression bug in .NET 3.5 SP1, in which when you have a generic class that implements ISerializable and has static variables – you can not serialize it using a BinaryFormatter without your application either hanging (x86) or raising an exception (x64 – a TargetInvocationException containing an OutOfMemoryException). This only happens if you use a reference type as a generic argument….

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