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Epic- Update BinaryFormatter usage

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Description

Official BinaryFormatter removal announcement: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/98245

BinaryFormatter is an inherently unsafe serliazer. WinForms used it quite a bit in early versions and now we should remove as much of this as possible.

This is part of the dotnet/planning/issues/27 theme

- [x] #8290
- [ ] #8297
- [x] https://github.com/dotnet/winforms/issues/8295
- [x] https://github.com/dotnet/winforms/issues/1251
- [ ] https://github.com/dotnet/winforms/issues/8296
- [x] #7988
- [x] #7986
- [x] #9059
- [x] #9110
- [ ] #9428

Related:
- #6269
- #4649

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