Hi, we upgraded our solution to .NET6 with LLBLGen 5.9.1. But now ORM Profiler is not working anymore due to exceptions regarding the BinaryFormatter.

How to proceed?

Kind regards, Danny

I found this out yesterday indeed, that they have removed BinaryFormatter from .net 6 completely. This is problematic as the profiler's data transport is based on binary serialization. So fixing this requires the redesign of the data transport system. It's a lot of data, so the first alternative, json serialization, is likely going to be a terrible choice. So at the moment we don't have a solution, we have to look into how to fix this. There are some options...

We'll try UTF8 json serialization first, to see if that is doable.

We have a Json -> UTF8 solution working now, but sadly it will cause friction as the new client doesn't seem to be able to deserialize .NET 4.x data (data that's serialized with binary formatter), even tho the types are the same.

So people have to upgrade client + interceptor. Data is bigger too, but .net 6 is faster so it's not that big of a deal. We'll do some more testing tomorrow (Friday) and see if everything works fine so we can push a new build

Hi Frans, great to hear that you have a working solution in progress. Let us know if you need any feedback or testing on our side to speed up the process. We're quite reliant on the Profiler to investigate issues and performance bottlenecks within our solution.

Regards, Danny

We've finalized the code, using Json.net Bson serialization for .net core / .net 6 and also made the rest work as-is, so new interceptors and client and we're good to go. Should be out later this afternoon

All tests succeed, so we pushed a new build. Please download the client v2.0.4 from the My Account -> Downloads section, and pull new ormprofiler packages from nuget (once their slow server has approved them) and it should work out of the box.

They do come with a dependency on NewtonSoft.Json/NewtonSoft.Json.Bson, but as that's in basically every app nowadays that shouldn't be a problem. If it is, please let us know.

Thanks for the effort and quick response. I'll download the new bits and let you know how it works out.

Regards, Danny