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c#winformsfileformat
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Reputation: 67

C# My own file format

I'm looking to make my own file format .

that format should contains pictures/pdf/and other files ...

also need to know how I can packer-unpacker for this format to unpack files from it/pack in it & reading the pictures from my own format to picture boxes on my WinForm for example.

I've searched but didn't really found what I'am looking for

I hope someone can help me , thank you

Upvotes: 0

Views: 507

Answers (3)

user2899465
user2899465

Reputation:

You can also use SQLite for your purposes. It provides dbms power without needing server. That is popular solution for your problem.

System.Data.SQLite is an ADO.NET adapter for SQLite.

Upvotes: 0

Allen
Allen

Reputation: 97

if you really want to write your own file format then I would suggest one of two things. One, you could do it entirely in binary at which point you would want to do a 'chunk' format. Chunk format is to basically have a header to each subsection. The header contains the size of both the header as well as the size of the payload. Create a serialization class for your header then add the bytes to the filestream from your payload. Actually pretty easy to do.

Second (and easier) way to do this would be to create an XML format. Create a master class for your format then add all of the data as collections of sub classes under that. Once you have that, use any of .net xml serialization classes to serialize it out to disk.

Upvotes: 1

Jacob
Jacob

Reputation: 759

Zip is an excellent choice. Because you can encrypt the file and of course reduce the file size in some cases (text and uncompressed things). But if you want to create your own file format you can easily decide rules for your storage and order inside the file. Then serialize the info into the file. For example by object serialization or by writing the binary date to file object by object .

Upvotes: 1

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