The File Control Object Model

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	eMbedded Visual Basic: Windows CE and Pocket PC Mobile Applications By Chris Tacke, Timothy Bassett
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	appendix A.  Control Reference

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The following tables outline the Object Model for the File Control. This control is included in MSCEFile.dll.

Table A.24. File Control Methods

Method	Return	Description
Close	Nothing	Closes an open file.
Get	Nothing	Reads binary data into a Variant variable. Usually used for data written with the Put method.
Input	String	Reads a specified number of characters from an open text file.
InputB	Byte array	Reads a specified number of bytes from an open binary file.
InputFields	Variant array	Reads a specified number of fields from an open sequential, comma-delimited file.
LineInputString	String	Reads the next single line (delimited by vbCr or vbCrLf) from an open sequential text file.
LinePrint	Nothing	Appends a line of text to an open sequential text file. Lineprint also terminates the line with vbCrLf.
Open	Nothing	Opens a file in Input, Output, Append, Random or Binary mode.
Put	Nothing	Writes a variant variable to disk as binary data.
WriteFields	Nothing	Writes numeric or text data to an open sequential file.

Table A.25. File Control Properties

Property	Return	Description
Attr	FileModeEnum	Gets the mode in which a file was opened. Can be confusing, as it does not return the FileAttrEnum for the open file.
EOF	Boolean	Returns True when the end of a file is reached.
Loc	Long	Gets the current read/write position of an open file.
LOF	Long	Gets the length of a file in bytes.
Name	String	Gets the logical name of the File control as set in the Properties window.
Parent	Object	Gets a reference to the File control's parent object, such as its containing form.
Seek	Long	Sets and returns the current read/write position in an open file. Seek always returns Loc + 1, except for when a file is first opened.
Tag	String	Sets or gets a string that can be used to hold any additional information the programmer wants to store.

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