Sending data over SOCKETS (serialization)

Hi,

I am trying to send an array of objects over a socket using winsock. Obviously I can't send the array in its current form and need to somehow convert it to an appropriate format. I have heard of the following "ideas" - serialisation, and converting to a byte array.

Would anyone be able to give me a quick example of how I might approach this, considering that the array we wish to convert is an array called products of type ProductInfo:

ProductInfo products[10];


I will be sending the eventual data via: send(client, senddata, (int)strlen(senddata), 0 );

David.

Came across the following stuff, which does work, but I want the character representation, not the file. Is there something similar???

ofstream out("binary.txt", ios::binary);
out.write((char*)&products, sizeof(products));
out.close();

ProductInfo test[10];

ifstream in("binary.txt", ios::binary);
in.read((char*)&test, sizeof(test));
cout << test[2].get_make();