Hashtable Serialization

I've experienced the pain of Hashtable serialization/deserialization. It's just doesn't work as you expect it to.

The following two posts are very useful explaining what the issues with Hashtable's serialization mechanism:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/279524/hashtable-ondeserialization

http://clevercoder.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/hashtable-serialization-and-the-ideserializationcallback-interface/