serializing a COM object

[craig.wenger@gmail.com]

Is it possible to serialize a COM class for which you don't have the
source code? Obviously it won't work without the [Serializable]
attribute, which I can't add, and implementing ISerializable on a
derived class won't help because I don't have access to the private
fields that I would need to write to a file for the serialization to
be successful.

Is there a way to write the block of memory from a pointer? I could
use Marshal.Structu reToPtr() to get a pointer to the object and
Marshal.SizeOf( ) to determine how much memory it takes up, and write
all of that to a binary file.

[Sheng Jiang[MVP]]

Re: serializing a COM object

There are a lot of persistance COM interfaces , see
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-US/library/aa768185.aspx for more information.
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Sheng Jiang
Microsoft MVP in VC++
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Is it possible to serialize a COM class for which you don't have the
source code? Obviously it won't work without the [Serializable]
attribute, which I can't add, and implementing ISerializable on a
derived class won't help because I don't have access to the private
fields that I would need to write to a file for the serialization to
be successful.
>
Is there a way to write the block of memory from a pointer? I could
use Marshal.Structu reToPtr() to get a pointer to the object and
Marshal.SizeOf( ) to determine how much memory it takes up, and write
all of that to a binary file.
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