Michael,
If all you want is for it to appear in Explorer, you should use a shell
extension (that will keep you out of the file system business). However, if
you need to have applications “see” those files in their open dialogs,
you’ll be looking at implementing a file system.
It could be implemented as a mini-redirector (where “mini” doesn’t mean “in
terms of work required” but rather refers to the model where you are using
an existing library of services - rdbss.sys - and you then get to write the
other piece.) Or you could implement it as a stand-alone redirector. There
are active examples of both in the OS as well as in 3rd party products, so
both are viable - and neither is easy.
Regards,
Tony
Tony Mason
Consulting Partner
OSR Open Systems Resources, Inc.
http://www.osr.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Herman (Parallelspace) [mailto:xxxxx@parallelspace.net]
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 1:06 PM
To: File Systems Developers
Subject: [ntfsd] Reality check: Does can a file system driver use an XML web
service to access a remote document store?
I really don’t know much about Windows file system drivers but …
…I have a remote document store that exposes the document store’s
subfolders and documents using an XML web service (not WebDAV). I would
like to have the document store’s folders and documents appear in Windows
Explorer as a hierarchical file system, support drag&drop, allow Office apps
to open the remote files, etc.
Is a Windows file system driver the right approach to take? …or is there
something else that makes more sense?
Michael Herman
Founder and CTO
Parallelspace Corporation
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