Re: Saving CArchive from VC8 -> reading on VC6

From:
David Wilkinson <no-reply@effisols.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Mon, 06 Nov 2006 20:30:24 -0500
Message-ID:
<#2GvJxgAHHA.4428@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>
fpmalard@gmail.com wrote:

Hi David,

Thanks for trying to help me on this.

I have a simple class, derived from CObject. It implements just some
int, BOOL and CString members.

One additional information is that the VC6 application is ANSI and the
VC8 is UNICODE.

If I try to load a file generated by VC6 version it loads fine on VC8
but after load it if I changed it and save back I can't open it anymore
on VC6. In fact when I do this the file double its disk size (probably
due the 8-bit increase).

So what I really need is to create a binary file with a bunch of
CObject derived objects from my VC8 UNICODE application and be able to
load it inside my old VC6 application.

Notes:
1) My new application needs to be UNICODE but the file could remain
ANSI if needed.
2) The VC6 application is wide distributed so I would like to avoid its
update.

Thanks again.
Fernando.


I don't use binary serialization, but can't you just overide the
Serialize() method of your class to save its strings in 8-bit format
(using W2A to convert)?

David Wilkinson

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