fileattributes parsepoint

[Yves Dhondt]

Hello,

one of the possible attributes of a file or a directory is ReparsePoint.
When there is such a point, there is a block of user-defined data associated
with the file/directory. In the past I used DeviceIoControl to get that
data. Now I wonder if there might be a direct way to get the data in .Net. I
would like to avoid interop if possible. Or is this once again something
which isn't provided by .Net yet?

Thanks in advance

Yves

[Nick Malik]

There appears to be a limited amount of information on NTFS Reparse Points
in the .NET framework v1.1.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...classtopic.asp

I didn't see any methods that would allow manipulation of reparse points
(along the lines of fsutil). I'm afraid that you are probably stuck with
interop for now. Perhaps this will improve with the next release of the
framework? (You can always download the beta to find out).

--- Nick
"Yves Dhondt" <[e-mail]> wrote in message
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Hello,

one of the possible attributes of a file or a directory is ReparsePoint.
When there is such a point, there is a block of user-defined data associated with the file/directory. In the past I used DeviceIoControl to get that
data. Now I wonder if there might be a direct way to get the data in .Net. I would like to avoid interop if possible. Or is this once again something
which isn't provided by .Net yet?

Thanks in advance

Yves