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Old May 16th, 2006, 12:05 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by bmad6
I have Visual Basic .NET 2003, and have also been working with another programming languages which has file mapping capabilities - aka, it can create named blocks of data which can be accessed by multiple programs. Does anyone know whether Visual Basic supports file mapping, or, if it doesn't, where I might be able to find a library with this capability?

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how about xml?

if you know nothing about xml, read the first link on this page.
http://www.vbdotnetheaven.com/Sections/XML.NET.asp

if you know something about xml, here's an example of how you write it to a file in VB .net
http://www.vbdotnetheaven.com/Code/Jul2003/2121.asp

here's an example how you insert into an xml document that exists already.
http://www.vbdotnetheaven.com/Code/Jul2003/2117.asp

there are lots more on reading, parsing, etc on that page. go to it.


can't go wrong there, in .NET you can write out xml easily to a file and read it back into C# or pretty much any programming langauge you want. not sure if this is what you meant, but its the way to go for flat files.
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