Continuous Disintegration

I’m taking some time off from not blogging to do a little blogging. I hope this doesn’t inconvenience absolutely nobody. I was doing some [binary] serialization work recently when I came across a problem – I wanted to serialize objects with delegate fields that were populated with anonymous methods at runtime. To wit, I had types like this: public delegate void MakeMove(); public class AdrianPeterson { public int GameOneYards { get; set; } public Football Ball { get; set; } public MakeMove Move { get; set; } } Populated like this: var explicitDirections = new List<string> { "left", "right", "left" }; var ap = new AdrianPeterson(); var apName = ap.GetType().Name; ap.GameOneYards = 87; ap.Move = () => Moves.Weave(apName, explicitDirections); So, I pop a [ Serializable ] on AdrianPeterson (and Football ), and I’m set, right? Wrong. Wrong like getting away from running AP in the second half when the only receiving threat you have is bei