Hi, I'm currently writing a component in C++ which creates a hierarchy of objects, and serializes them using the Boost serialization library. The serialized archive consists of a root "Document" object, which consists of an STL vector of "Pages". Each page consists of an STL vector of other object types, which themselves have sub-objects. The platform is Microsoft Windows. At some time in the future I want to port the component to C#. One option would be to call the Boost library from C# using interop, but I'd rather try to code it completely in C#, as that would bring a lot of portability benefits. What I'd ideally like to do therefore is in the future to deserialize with C# any files currently being saved with C++. Since Boost provides XML archives I thought I'd look at changing from my current text archives to XML archives. That was straightforward and I'm now saving to XML archives. I'm now starting to look at whether it possible to deserialize an XML archive using C#, possibly by writing a skeleton test component in C#. I'm pretty familiar with C#, but not XML serialization in C#, so I'm not sure yet how to map the XML elements (and class ids ?) to C# objects. In the meantime I was wondering if any one has done anything like this or had any thoughts on whether this approach is feasible? Thanks for any advice, Robert Fairlie -- View this message in context: http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/Deserializing-Boost-archives-using-C-tp46... Sent from the Boost - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.