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Method used by ClipboardImageArchiver - merits and demerits
ClipboardImageArchiver overcomes the problem of 'appending to zip' files using a combination of binary serialization and stream compression. This article mainly discusses this method used by ClipboardImageArchiver and its merits/demerits.
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    <resheader name="writer">System.Resources.ResXResourceWriter, System.Windows.Forms, ...</resheader>
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    value   : The object must be serialized into a byte array 
            : using a System.ComponentModel.TypeConverter
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