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Serialization isn’t all that great – it’s just a way to save data as a stream. Anybody who has used MFC much knows that you still have to think up schemes so that you know what type and amount of data to expect next in the stream when you read it back. I suggest that you avoid this hackery and just use XML. See the question below.
