serialize in .NET, deserialize in C++

Question

I have a .NET application which serializes an object in binary format. this object is a struct consisting of a few fields.

I must deserialize and use this object in a C+

Answer 1

Both boost and Google have libraries for serialization. However, if your struct is pretty trivial, you might consider managing the serialization yourself by writing bytes out from C# and then reading the data in C++ with fread.