What is the Web Store?

[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change.]

Web Store is a database technology that you can use to store, share, and manage heterogeneous data, such as e-mail messages, Web pages, multimedia files, and Microsoft Office documents. The Web Store is organized much like a traditional file system as a hierarchy of folders. Each folder within Web Store can contain any number of items, including other folders. You can access items in the Web Store using many protocols and APIs, including the Hypertext Transfer Protocol and WebDAV (HTTP/WebDAV), Microsoft® ActiveX® Data Objects Version 2.5 (ADO), OLE DB Version 2.5, Collaboration Data Object for Exchange 2000 (CDOEX), the Messaging API (MAPI), through the file system, and using several other industry-standard wire protocols.