Binary File Writing / Object as source

[jplocster]

I am trying to write out a bit for bit copy of a DataSet object. I am assuming I will have to somehow covert or copy the DataSet to a array of bytes or ints and then write those out with a BinaryWriter. I am having a hell of time with the conversion though. I have tried Marshalling but the Marshal does not take kindly to my DataSet. I am used to C++ and writing out dwords from a object pointer, then incrementing the pointer based on the sizeof the object. How can I do a similar thing in VB.NEt.

Thanks for any ideas.

 

[Divil]

Look in to Binary Serialization. You can only serialize types that are marked serializable with the Serializable() attribute though. You should be in luck with this particular class.