Saving a class to disk and then reading it back in

I am trying to save my program settings to disk but I cannot cast the data (a char*) to my class called Settings. This is done easily in C#, how do I do it in C++?

I have to stop thinking with a C# mentality. I wasn't casting it to a pointer!

Direct serialization of class objects in C++ is highly complex and best avoided. Use alternative serialization. Save the data from the Settings class to a .ini, .properties or .xml, anything.

Is this ok?

Code:

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class Settings
{
        public:
        BYTE brStyle0_1_2;
        BYTE spAssignOp0_1_2;
        bool spFuncsAndStructs;
        bool spSemiColins;
        bool spOperators;
        bool replNullWZero;
        bool spCommas;
        Settings()
        {
                this->brStyle0_1_2= 2;
                this->spAssignOp0_1_2= 1;
                this->spFuncsAndStructs= 0;
                this->spSemiColins= 1;
                this->spOperators= 1;
                this->spCommas= 1;
                this->replNullWZero= 1;
        }
};

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