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<hr><div align="left" ><font face="Times New Roman" color="#010101" ><span style="font-size:12pt" >The BinaryFile library includes many methods for working with binary files.</span></font><font color="#010101" ></font></div><div align="left" ><font face="Times New Roman" color="#010101" ><span style="font-size:12pt" >Before using these methods you need to first add a reference to BinaryFile.dll and then
create an object of this type.</span></font><font color="#010101" ></font></div><div align="left" ><font face="Times New Roman" color="#010101" ><span style="font-size:12pt" >Afterwards, initialize the object using New1.</span></font><font color="#010101" ></font></div><div align="left" ><font face="Times New Roman" color="#010101" ><span style="font-size:12pt" >The BinaryFile object receives a file connection (Stream) of a randomly opened file.</span></font><font color="#010101" ></font></div><div align="left" ><font face="Times New Roman" color="#010101" ><span style="font-size:12pt" >The methods include writing and reading different types of data from a file.</span></font><font color="#010101" ></font></div><div align="left" ><font face="Times New Roman" color="#010101" ><span style="font-size:12pt" >After reading or writing a value from the file, the file pointer moves forward to the next
value.</span></font><font color="#010101" ></font></div><div align="left" ><font face="Times New Roman" color="#010101" ><span style="font-size:12pt" >Methods for setting the absolute or relative position of the file pointer (next byte to read).</span></font><font color="#010101" ></font></div><div align="left" ><font face="Times New Roman" color="#010101" ><span style="font-size:12pt" >And method for embedding and retrieving files to a file.</span></font><font color="#010101" ></font></div><div align="left" ><br></div><font color="#010101" ><div align="left" ></font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#010101" ><span style="font-size:12pt" >Example:</span></font><font color="#010101" ></font></div><div align="left" ><font face="Courier New" color="#008000" ><span style="font-size:10pt" >'First add an object named bin (of BinaryFile type).</span></font><font color="#010101" ></font></div><div align="left" ><font face="Courier New" color="#0000ff" ><span style="font-size:10pt" >Sub </span></font><font face="Courier New" ><span style="font-size:10pt" >Globals</span></font><font color="#010101" ></font></div><div align="left" ><br></div><font color="#010101" ><div align="left" ></font><font face="Courier New" color="#0000ff" ><span style="font-size:10pt" >End Sub</span></font><font color="#010101" ></font></div><div align="left" ><br></div><font color="#010101" ><div align="left" ></font><font face="Courier New" color="#0000ff" ><span style="font-size:10pt" >Sub </span></font><font face="Courier New" ><span style="font-size:10pt" >App_Start</span></font><font color="#010101" ></font></div><div align="left" ><font face="Courier New" ><span style="font-size:10pt" > </span></font><font face="Courier New" color="#0000ff" ><span style="font-size:10pt" >FileOpen</span></font><font face="Courier New" ><span style="font-size:10pt" >(c1,"data.dat",cRandom)</span></font><font color="#010101" ></font></div><div align="left" ><font face="Courier New" ><span style="font-size:10pt" > bin.New1(c1,true)</span></font><font color="#010101" ></font></div><div align="left" ><font face="Courier New" ><span style="font-size:10pt" > bin.WriteString ("Product1")</span></font><font color="#010101" ></font></div><div align="left" ><font face="Courier New" ><span style="font-size:10pt" > bin.WriteDouble(123.23)</span></font><font color="#010101" ></font></div><div align="left" ><font face="Courier New" ><span style="font-size:10pt" > bin.WriteInt16(5)</span></font><font color="#010101" ></font></div><div align="left" ><font face="Courier New" ><span style="font-size:10pt" > bin.Position = 0 </span></font><font face="Courier New" color="#008000" ><span style="font-size:10pt" >'Return the pointer to the start</span></font><font color="#010101" ></font></div><div align="left" ><font face="Courier New" ><span style="font-size:10pt" > productName = bin.ReadString</span></font><font color="#010101" ></font></div><div align="left" ><font face="Courier New" ><span style="font-size:10pt" > price = bin.ReadDouble </span></font><font face="Courier New" color="#008000" ><span style="font-size:10pt" >'Types must match</span></font><font color="#010101" ></font></div><div align="left" ><font face="Courier New" ><span style="font-size:10pt" > count = bin.ReadInt16</span></font><font color="#010101" ></font></div><div align="left" ><font face="Courier New" ><span style="font-size:10pt" > </span></font><font face="Courier New" color="#0000ff" ><span style="font-size:10pt" >msgbox</span></font><font face="Courier New" ><span style="font-size:10pt" >("Product: " & productName & crlf & "Price:
" & price & crlf
& "Amount: " & count)</span></font><font color="#010101" ></font></div><div align="left" ><font face="Courier New" ><span style="font-size:10pt" > </span></font><font face="Courier New" color="#0000ff" ><span style="font-size:10pt" >FileClose</span></font><font face="Courier New" ><span style="font-size:10pt" >(c1)</span></font><font color="#010101" ></font></div><div align="left" ><font face="Courier New" color="#0000ff" ><span style="font-size:10pt" >End Sub</span></font><font color="#010101" ></font></div><div align="left" ><font color="#010101" ></font></div>
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