File I/O

Changes are inevitable in large projects. This article introduces some useful techniques to minimize compilation time during development.

Learn about the structure for LFN entries in the root directory and how to read LFN from the root directory of the FAT file system.

Learn the FAT root directory structure on a floppy and how to retrieve information about the file (not file content) from it by using VC++.

Learn how to read a floppy disk's geometry witout using DeviceIoControl on Windows XP.

Learn about the structure of the MS Outlook .msg file format and how a VC++ application can extract data from this file.

Learn to use Unicode to perform file-based operations.

I/O completion ports are the holy grail of performance. This article provides an extremely lightweight and open framework for easily implementing IOCP's in your application(s).

Tom Archer illustrates how to parse comma-delimited text—when the data contains quotes, commas, and blanks—and return the data in a managed array.

We make our projects in different files, not in a single file. We will do this because we want to reduce the compilation time during the development as well as reuse the code written in different files.

This article describes two classes for storing and retrieving string, numeric and BOOL variables to/from files in ASCII text format - much like INI files.

Generic C++ circular file implementation