You may have heard about OLE 2.0 with its ability to control applications and embed objects from one application into another. But there's another feature built into OLE 2.0 that until now was not accessible to Visual Basic« programmers. It's called "Structured Storage" and StorageWorks-VB is your key to this powerful technology.
Structured Storage allows you to create files that organise complex data easily in a hierarchical system. Data can be identified by keywords, and each data item can contain other data items also identified by keywords. It's like having an entire file system in each file.
OLE 2.0 takes care of allocating and freeing space within a file, so just as you need not concern yourself with the physical placement of files on disk, you can disregard the actual location of data in the file. Plus: with its support for transactioning you can easily implement undo operations and incremental saves in your application.
Take advantage of the same file storage system used by Microsoft's own applications. In fact, we include programs (with source) that let you examine the structure of any OLE 2.0 based file so you can see exactly how they do it! For example you can use it to examine Word file structured storage Summary information.
And as long as we were including support for OLE structured storage, we also addressed the two other major data storage issues under Visual Basic. StorageWorks-VB includes documentation and controls to make it easy to work with the registration database under Windows Ö, Windows NT 3.5.1 and Windows 95. Plus, we include a simple resource compiler (with source) so that you can create your own .RES files for use with Visual Basic.
StorageWorks-VB includes 16 & 32 bit OCX/ActiveX controls, extensive documentation and sample code.