是否可以反序列化C＃中的对象，该对象已在C ++ MFC中进行二进制序列化？

Question

The object has been serialized in C++ MFC using the CObject::Serialize() Method.

I would like to deserialize in C#.

Is that possible at all?

Answer 1

Yes, it's possible...

However, whether or not you'd want to do it is another thing. The MFC serialization format is geared towards the MFC framework. It encodes the names of MFC classes into the serialized data that you'd have to try find an equivilant C++ class for.

Your best bet would be to use a language agnostic serialization format and use that to serialize your data. JSON, XML or Protobuf are good fits for this.

Answer 2

Is that possible at all?

Short answer: No.

MFC's de-serialization produces unmanaged objects on the unmanaged heap, and it needs access to the respective class' CRuntimeClass , as well as the framework's global structure mapping class names to factory methods. The latter, in particular, are not accessible from C#.

What you can do is read the serialized binary stream, and reconstruct the information to be stored in managed objects. The binary file format is documented under TN002: Persistent Object Data Format ¹⁾ . This will not allow you to serialize those managed objects back to an MFC-compatible binary stream (unless you re-implement the file format in your managed classes as well).

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¹⁾ Note: The binary representation of each object in the serialized stream is encoded in its class' CObject::Serialize override. Knowing the overall file format is not enough to de-serialize an MFC-serialized stream. You also need to know each object's serialization code.