Serialize and deserialize BITMAP object in MFC/Win32

09/07/2009

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Lately, in one of my project, I have to save an BITMAP object into an XML document. The problem is I can only save an CString into the XML document. So I have to find a way to convert BITMAP data (in a HBITMAP) into CString.

It’s pretty easy if I serialize the BITMAP to an byte[] array, and then convert the result byte[] array into CString format. So I will consequently discuss on these 2 problems.

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