Alternate Streams in Win2k

[WhiteTiger]

Ok, maybe the VB people can help me here...(God knows the VC++ people couldn't)

In Visual Basic, how can you compile things into an alternate stream?...

Or how can you place variables/other things into an alternate stream?

I asked this in the VC++ forum, wondering how to do it in VC++, but maybe I can do it on VB and work from there... ----------------------------------------
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[strongm]

I think that you need to clarify what it is that you hope to achieve here.

 

[chiph]

WhiteTiger -

The standard VB file handling calls won't open the alternate streams (BTW, you *are* using NTFS, aren't you?). You'll need to insert the declare statements for the Win32 API file handling calls (CreateFile, CloseHandle, etc). Use the API Text viewer in the Visual Studio Tools folder to save yourself a lot of time.

I haven't looked at the alternate streams in a while -- I think all you did was append a colon and the stream name to the end of your path. <quickly refer to MSDN>. Yep, that's it.

Chip H.

 

[strongm]

Both the classic Open <filename> etc. file methods, and the FileSystemObject support alternate streams.

Mike

 

[WhiteTiger]

No, I mean EMBED an alternate stream within the compiled file...like declaring what part of something is supposed to go into an alternate stream...

I KNOW you can put a colon on there to run something with another program AS an alternate stream, but not embedding it within the program that I am compiling...all it does is run it with the other program as an alternate stream...

Well, I guess the VB people are still smarter than the VC++ people, at least you guys tried helping, and new what alternate streams were LOL ----------------------------------------
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