Devscovery 2009 Redmond follow-up

During my CLR/BCL/C# 4.0 talk, a few people asked me questions for which I didn't have the answer. I have now researched these questions and have the answers.

 

Question #1: Are the new concurrent collection classes in .NET 4.0 serializable?

Answer: Yes, ConcurrentStack, ConcurrentQueue, ConcurrentBag, and ConcurrentDictionary are all serializable. However, the BlockingCollection class (which can wrap any of these except for ConcurrentDictionary) is not serializable.

 

Question #2: How d...