IXFile Features

• General Information
  • available as COM component and C++ library
  • compatible with Visual Studio programming tools and COM-compliant scripting languages
  • fast and efficient code with small memory footprint
  • minimal system requirements, operates on Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
• Key File Operations
  • opening
    • opening files in various access and sharing modes
    • attaching opened files by handle
    • automatic file closing
  • reading, writing and finding data of various types
    • bit
    • byte
    • short and long integer
    • single and double precision floating point number
    • variant, date, currency, decimal
    • text (ANSI and Unicode, several formats)
    • binary
  • locking
    • automatic locking on read and write operations
    • manual locking for various data types
    • multilock feature for locking overlapping file regions
  • resizing
    • block insertions and deletions
    • manual file resizing
  • positioning
    • automatic positioning on read and write operations
    • absolute and relative manual positioning
  • retrieving file information
• File System Operations
  • checking file existence with attributes retrieval
  • copying, moving and deleting files
  • path manipulations
• Supportive Functionality
  • optimizable buffering and unbuffered transfer
  • Unicode support with adjustable conversion
  • multithreading support
  • rich error reporting with failure code, error code and error description