Visual C++® 6 Unleashed

Chapter 9. Using Serialization with File and Archive Objects

by Mickey Williams

In This Chapter

• File I/O Differences Between MFC and Win32

• Working with the CFile Class

• Using the CArchive and CObject Classes

• Understanding Serialization in MFC

• Using Serialization with Document/View

• How Are Document/View Applications Serialized?

• Creating a Document/View Serialization Example

Serialization is the method used by MFC to store an object to a file or another type of storage. The MFC serialization architecture uses three classes (all are discussed in this chapter):

• The CFile class models a Win32 file I/O object. Some differences exist between Win32 file objects and MFC CFile file objects; these differences are discussed in this chapter.

• CObject ...