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deserialize binary file from a vb6 application

I am using Visual Studio 2005 to develop the application and would like to
open a binary file that was saved in a Visual Basic 6 application. The binary
file contains one record: a user defined type.

Using the "Imports System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary " and
fStream = New FileStream(strFilename, FileMode.Open)
strucThisproject = CType(binFormat.Deserialize(fStream),
ProjectStruct)
catches the message:'The input stream is not a valid binary format. The
starting contents (in 'bytes) are:
00-00-01-00-31-87-C7-CE-25-8A-00-00-00-33-33-33-33 ...

I have also tried creating a com dll in visual basic 6 which extracts the
record from the file and passes it onto the equivalent structure type in
vb.net.
This catches the message: "Value of type MyServer.udtProject' cannot be
converted to VBNetApp.Values.ProjectStruct"

Would appreciate any advice.
Regards
Norm
Aug 2 '06 #1
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