Struggling with Boost Serialization and Asio Libraries

Boost C++ Libraries

I know I've been at this for days, and I'm making some progress, but it's tortuously slow, and several times today I wondered if this was even the right path. I could pull up my old CKit stuff and be productive in minutes. The problem is, I need async I/O. There's no two ways about it. If I cheat here and skip async I/O on these TCP sockets, I'll regret it forever.

So I have to slug through this no matter how bad it seems.

I just hope it gets better soon... I'm getting discouraged.