# StgCreateDocfileOnILockBytes

Creates and opens a new compound file storage object on top of a byte array object provided by the caller. The storage object supports the OLE-provided, compound-file implementation for the IStorage interface.

WINOLEAPI StgCreateDocfileOnILockBytes(

ILockBytes * plkbyt, | //Points to the ILockBytes interface on the byte array object
DWORD grfMode, | //Specifies the access mode
DWORD reserved, | //Reserved; must be zero
IStorage ** ppstgOpen | //Points to location for returning the new storage object
); |

Parameters

plkbyt
  [in] Points to the ILockBytes interface on the underlying byte array object on which to create a compound file.
grfMode
  [in] Specifies the access mode to use when opening the new compound file. For more information, see the STGM enumeration.
reserved
  [in] Reserved for future use; must be zero.
ppstgOpen
  [out] Points to the location of the IStorage pointer on the new storage object.

Return Values

S_OK
  Indicates the compound file was successfully created.
STG_E_ACCESSDENIED
  Access denied because the caller has insufficient permission, or another caller has the file open and locked.
STG_E_LOCKVIOLATION
  Access denied because another caller has the file open and locked.
STG_E_FILEALREADYEXISTS
  Indicates the compound file already exists and the grfMode parameter is set to STGM_FAILIFTHERE.
STG_S_CONVERTED
  Indicates the compound file was successfully converted. The original byte array object was successfully converted to IStorage format.
STG_E_INSUFFICIENTMEMORY
  Indicates the storage object was not created due to a lack of memory.
STG_E_INVALIDPOINTER
  Indicates a bad pointer was in the pLkbyt parameter or the ppStgOpen parameter.
STG_E_INVALIDFLAG
  Indicates a bad flag combination was in the grfMode parameter.
STG_E_TOOMANYOPENFILES
  Indicates the storage object was not created due to a lack of file handles.

See also any file system errors for other error return values.

See also the ILockBytes interface for other error return values.

Remarks

The StgCreateDocfileOnILockBytes function creates a storage object on top of a byte array object using the OLE-provided, compound-file implementation of the IStorage interface. StgCreateDocfileOnILockBytes can be used to store a document in a relational database. The byte array (indicated by the pLkbyt parameter, which points to the ILockBytes interface on the object) is used for the underlying storage in place of a disk file.

Except for specifying a programmer-provided byte-array object, StgCreateDocfileOnILockBytes is similar to the StgCreateDocfile function. For more information, refer to StgCreateDocfile.

The newly created compound file is opened according to the access modes in the grfMode parameter. For conversion purposes, the file is always considered to already exist. As a result, it is not useful to use the STGM_FAILIFTHERE value, because it always causes an error to be returned. However, STGM_CREATE and STGM_CONVERT are both still useful.

The ability to build a compound file on top of a byte array object is provided to support having the data (underneath an IStorage and IStream tree structure) live in a non-persistent space. Given this capability, there is nothing preventing a document that is stored in a file from using this facility. For example, a container might do this to minimize the impact on its file format caused by adopting OLE. However, it is recommended that OLE documents adopt the IStorage interface for their own outer-level storage. This has the following advantages:

- The storage structure of the document is the same as its storage structure when it is an embedded object, reducing the number of cases the application needs to handle.

- One can write tools to access the OLE embeddings and links within the document without special knowledge of the document’s file format. An example of such a tool is a copy utility that copies all the documents included in a container containing linked objects. A copy utility like this needs access to the contained links to determine the extent of files to be copied.

- The IStorage implementation addresses the problem of how to commit the changes to the file. An application using the ILockBytes interface must handle these issues itself.

- Future file systems will likely implement the IStorage and IStream interfaces as their native abstractions, rather than layer on top of a byte array as is done in compound files. Such a file system could be built so documents using the IStorage interface as their outer level containment structure would get an automatic efficiency gain by having the layering flattened when files are saved on the new file system.

See Also

StgCreateDocfile