Re: Storage app

From:

"Alexander Nickolov" <agnickolov@mvps.org>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.language,microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:50:23 -0700

Message-ID:

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Check out OLE Compound Files. See the following functions:

StgCreateStorageEx
StgOpenStorageEx

and interfaces:

IStorage
IRootStorage
IStream

If you care about encryption on the fly, see:

StgCreateDocfileOnILockBytes
StgOpenStorageOnILockBytes
ILockBytes

In this case you'll have to implement ILockBytes yourself.

You may also want to check OLE's persistence mechanism
for COM objects (not sure whether it's relevant for you):

IPersist
IPersistStream
IPersistStreamInit
IPersistStorage
IMoniker (for links)

A useful book for all of the above would be:

"Inside OLE" second edition by Kraig Bockschmidt, MS Press

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"CodeTestDummy" <sharp_mind.TAKETHISOUT@email.TAKETHISOUT.msn.com> wrote in
message news:eWt3Tw88HHA.4432@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

All,

I would like write an app where I can store folder structure and file in
it and access them on the fly. How can I go about doing this? All advice
are welcome. Thanks...