Binary serialization/de-serialization in C++ and C#

Question

I am working on a distributed application which has two components. One is written in standard C++ (not managed C++ and running on a Linux platform) and the

Answer 1

Another possibility would be Thrift, it has even more backends and if necessary provides a good part of the code required for network communication - in case you want to scale out.

If you only want easy object serialization I would have a look at json.org There are plenty of C++ / .NET implementations around.