CObject Class Topics

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CObject is the root base class for most of the Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC). The CObject class contains many useful features that you may want to incorporate into your own program objects, including serialization support, run-time class information, and object diagnostic output. If you derive your class from CObject, your class can exploit these CObject features.

Frequently Asked Questions About CObject

• Do I have to derive new classes from CObject?
  
  
• What does it cost me to derive a class from CObject?

What do you want to do?

• Derive a class of my own from CObject
  
  
• Add support for run-time class information, dynamic creation, and serialization to my derived class
  
  
• Access information about my class at run time
  
  
• Create objects of my class dynamically

See Also   Files in MFC, Serialization (Object Persistence)