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Storage Interfaces

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Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3

4/8/2010

The following table shows the Storage interfaces with a description of the purpose of each.

Note

Windows Mobile may not support all of the programming elements in this section. For information about differences between the COM implementation available for Windows Mobile devices and that available for Windows Embedded CE devices, see COM and DCOM in Windows Mobile Devices.

Programming element Description

IStorage

This interface provides methods for creating and managing the root storage, child storage, and stream objects.

IStream

This interface supports reading and writing data to stream objects.

ILockBytes

This interface is implemented on a byte array object that is backed by some physical storage, such as a disk file, global memory, or a database.

IRootStorage

This interface contains a single method that switches a storage object to a different underlying file and saves the storage object to that file.

See Also

Reference

Storage Reference