Hello To preface I am using Borland C++ and the VCL. I need some sort of structured storage object which can be saved to disk as a single file and can contain multiple named blobs of binary data which I can programatically enumerate, access and manipulate. The IStorage interface seems to be close what I want but I would prefer a VCL s...
I'm using IStorage's Compound File Implementation from C# (StgCreateDocfile). Is it safe to access one IStorage / IStream instance from multiple threads, provided I synchronized the reads and writes myself? Or are there any COM issues that might be problematic here? For example, can I safely call EnumElements to get all streams in the ...
I've been working on what sounds like simple functionality for way too long now. The idea is that I have an application with a TreeView. This treeview represents contents of a database organized into files and folders, much like Windows Explorer. So it makes sense that the user should be able to drag those files/folders out of my app ...
I'm trying to embed a PDF file into a Word document using the OLE technique described here: http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2009/07/21/embedding-any-file-type-like-pdf-in-an-open-xml-file.aspx I've tried to implement the C++ code provided in C# so that the whole project's in one place and am almost there except for one roadblo...
Hi there, I'm a C++ developer wrestling with updating an application that had made extensive use of the IStorage interface to open pre-Office 2007 documents from in-memory storage (via ILockBytes). If you are still following me so far, you probably know that the new Office Document formats are incompatible with IStorage containers. T...