Chapter 10: Persistent Storage
As mentioned in Chapter 1, the enhanced COM services define a number of storage-related interfaces, collectively called Persistent Storage or Structured Storage. By definition of the term interface, these interfaces carry no implementation. They describe a way to create a "file system within a file," and they provide some extremely powerful features for applications including incremental access, transactioning, and a sharable medium that can be used for data exchange or for storing the persistent data of objects that know how to read and write such data themselves. The following sections deal with the structure of storage and the other features.
You can read through this chapter, or choose a topic of interest from this list:
- A File System Within a File
- Storage and Stream Objects
- Application Design with Structured Storage
- Naming Elements
- Direct Access vs. Transacted Access
- Browsing Elements
- Persistent Objects