Although binary files may at first seem rather primitive, reading and writing bytes one by one, they can be immensely useful, and make it relatively easy to create your own file formats. This tutorial shows you the ins and outs of Binary files, serialization (converting variables to binary) and deserialization (converting binary files to readable variables)
Binary Files
14 Jul 2001 | by James Crowley
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- Introduction
- File Access
- The Basics
- Strings
- More Strings
- Practical Uses
Introduction
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James Crowley 
James first started this website when learning Visual Basic back in 1999 whilst studying his GCSEs. The site grew steadily over the years while being run as a hobby - to a regular monthly audien...
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