Shows how to convert an object to a byte array using the binary formater and then encoding the resulting byte array to a Base64-encoded System.String.

Today I was asked to look into an interesting task that was keeping busy one of my colleagues for a while. It's such a common task that I'm wondering how come I was never presented with something similar before.Let's use an example to better illustrate the task on hand. Imagine you have a notification system that runs daily and creates a list of different events for what individual users need to be notified. This table represents the notification list resulted from the daily run:UserId        EventId-------------------    1        1    1        2    1        3    2        2    3        2    3        4    3        5    4        2    Now a new requirement comes up: All events will be assigned a priority and the users can only received 2 notifications a day for the events with the highest priority.This table represents our Events and their Priority (the bigger the number the highest is the priority):EventId         Priority--------------------    1                8    2                9    3                10    4  ...