Re: How to Read/Write objects to and from a file?

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From: Geoff Schwab [MSFT] (a-geosch_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/31/04 

Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 12:47:28 -0800

Hi Stephen,

Another possible solution if you want to come as close to load-in-place as
you can for managed code is to implement your class as a byte array with
properties that access the members. Then you can simple write the byte
array to the file and load it directly from the file.

For those who are not familiar with the term, load-in-place is a method of
mapping data in a file directly to data in memory. In C++ you would do this
by allocating a class instance and then loading a file directly into the
pointer to the instance (of course, a v-table can cause issues here). 

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"stevebju" <brownst4@engr.sc.edu> wrote in message
news:108F28AE-612D-41A5-B977-9B386160E18A@microsoft.com...
> I'm having the hardest time reading and writing a simple class object to
and from a file in the CF. Could someone show me how to write a class object
to a file? Then if I have multiple objects in a file, how do I read them out
one by one?
>
> Thanks,
> Stephen

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