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Is there any clear documentation on the binary formats used to serialize the various MFC data structures? I've been able to view some of my own classes in a hex editor and use Java's ByteBuffer class to read them in (with automatic endianness conversions, etc).

However, I am currently running into issues while trying to bring over the CObArray data, as there seems to be a rather large header that is opaque to me, and it is unclear how it is persisting object type information.

Is there a set of online documentation that would be helpful for this? Or some sample Java code from someone that has dealt with this in the past?

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Since MFC ships with source code I would create a test MFC application that serializes a CObArray and step through the serialization code. This should give you all the information you need.

jmatthias
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I agree with jmatthias: use the MFC source code.

There's also this page on MSDN that may be useful.

ChrisN