Serialize and Deserialize Oracle.DataAccess.OracleException in C#

OracleException has no public constructors nor any way to get a new instance. I tried my XmlSerializerHelper class, but it requires a public parameterless constructor.

I used BinaryFormatter to serialize the OracleException and wrote it to a file.

How can I serialize OracleException in a file, and deserialize too using XmlSerializer -for testing reasons-?.

Reference: http://geekswithblogs.net/WillSmith/archive/2008/07/25/testing-oracleexception.aspx

PD: Is better SoapFormatter or BinaryFormatter ?

Code

SerializationHelper.Serialize(@"C:\Temp\ExcepcionOracle.bin", ex);

var exOra = SerializationHelper.Deserialize(@"C:\Temp\ExcepcionOracle.bin");


public static void Serialize(string fileName, Object obj)
        {
            var binaryFormatter = new BinaryFormatter();
            var fileStream = new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Create);
            try
            {
                binaryFormatter.Serialize(fileStream, obj);
            }
            catch (SerializationException ex)
            {
                throw new ApplicationException("The object graph could not be serialized", ex);
            }
            finally
            {
                fileStream.Close();
            }
        }


        public static object Deserialize(string fileName)
        {
            var binaryFormatter = new BinaryFormatter();
            var fileStream = new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Open);
            try
            {
                fileStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
                return binaryFormatter.Deserialize(fileStream);
            }
            catch (SerializationException ex)
            {
                throw new ApplicationException("Serialization Exception: " + ex.Message);
            }
            finally
            {
                fileStream.Close();
            }
            return null;
        }