There's a pretty standard implementation of Huffman Coding in the Basic Compression Library (BCL) including a recursive function that writes the tree out to a file. Look at huffman.C. It just writes out the leaves in order so the decoder can reconstruct the same tree.
First off, have you considered using a standard compression Stream (like GZipStream in . Net)?
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