Maybe a strange question...

[olisemalis]

Hi,

If I have a component with a property to each I need to pass a path to a text file, is it possible to send it something in memory that would be well interpreted as a file? Or that depends of the way the property was done?

I ask this because I don´t want to save a file on this. I would like to work with a filed built in memory.

Thank you

 

[chrissie1]

You could pass it a stream (bytes), but I'm not sure that is that what you want.

Christiaan Baes
Belgium

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[TipGiver]

You can have the file as embedded resource. Then use a stream, as Chris said, ..

 

[vladk]

olisemalis,

You probably need Object Serialization. Look at FileStream and BinaryFormatter objects. They go hand in hand for this case. Or FileStream and SoapFormatter objects. The difference is that the latter produces human readable output.

vladk

 

[chiph]

Or use Win32 APIs to create a memory-mapped file.

Chip H.


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[lucyv]

Can someone please explain in further detail what olisemalis is trying to do? This sounds alot like a situation that I came across in the past but could not find a work-able solution.

Thanks!

-lucyv

 

[olisemalis]

Hi Lucyv,

I need to use a component that accepts a string path to a file. If think the component doesn´t accept the data on the file but the file itself. So I need to create a file and giv the component the url. To create a file on disk its time consuming. The goal is to create a file in another whay...if it is possible...

Thank you

 

[lucyv]

Thanks olisemalis. I think our situations are pretty similiar. Please let me know if you get this to work.

-lucyv