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Mine's probably stringstream, as I just learned about that and am finding it quite useful.
 
 
 
  
My favorite is std::valarray -- expression templates made easy!
 
 
 
  
std::exception (seriously). 
To be fair, I rarely use the standard classes.
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If you're like I am, you abuse std::vector to read binary files.
Whereas we should have been provided memory mapped file libraries, a long time ago.
 
 
 
  
Boost has portable memory mapped file I/Ô, so there is a chance.