Technical Specification

Description

CallbackDisk allows developers to create virtual disk the easiest possible way. Proper virtual disk will appear after implementation of several callback functions. This disk can be formatted to FAT, NTFS, SolFS or any other file system.

CallbackDisk consists of the system-level driver and user-mode API.

Driver

Virtual disk driver creates a virtual storage device, which emulates a physical storage.
The driver works on the system level and turns a storage into a "real" disk device with its own file system. The "real disk device" is accessible in read-only and/or read-write mode by any application which uses system file management API.

The driver lets you make the mounted disk visible to the user or hide it from the user.
Unlike SolFS Driver Edition, the driver doesn't read or write the data from/to the physical location. Instead, the driver provides a callback mechanism, which lets you keep your data storage wherever you want (i.e. on remote computer, in memory or database record etc.).

User-mode API

User-mode API is simple and introduces just about ten functions, specific to driver management and storage mounting operations.
The API is needed only for driver and storage manipulation. All file operations can be performed using system file management API or framework-specific classes.

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Supported platforms

• Windows:
  • Windows 2008 Server R2 (32-bit, 64-bit AMD64 and 64-bit Itanium)
  • Windows 7 (32-bit, 64-bit AMD64 and 64-bit Itanium)
  • Windows 2008 Server (32-bit, 64-bit AMD64 and 64-bit Itanium)
  • Windows Vista (32-bit, 64-bit AMD64 and 64-bit Itanium)
  • Windows 2003 Server (32-bit, 64-bit AMD64 and 64-bit Itanium)
  • Windows XP (32-bit, 64-bit AMD64 and 64-bit Itanium)
• Microsoft .NET Framework on Windows:
  • .NET 4.0 (32-bit, 64-bit x64 and Itanium)
  • .NET 3.5 (32-bit, 64-bit x64 and Itanium)
  • .NET 3.0 (32-bit, 64-bit x64 and Itanium)
  • .NET 2.0 (32-bit, 64-bit x64 and Itanium)

Development tools

• .NET API:
  • Visual Studio 2010
  • Visual Studio 2008
  • Visual Studio 2005
  • CodeGear Prism
  • CodeGear RAD Studio 2007
  • Delphi 2007
• C++ API:
  • Visual Studio 2010
  • Visual Studio 2008
  • Visual Studio 2005
  • Visual Studio.NET 2003
  • Visual Studio 6 / Visual C++ 6
  • Embarcadero RAD Studio XE
  • Embarcadero RAD Studio 2010
  • CodeGear RAD Studio 2009
  • CodeGear RAD Studio 2007
  • C++Builder XE
  • C++Builder 2010
  • C++Builder 2009
  • C++Builder 2007
  • C++Builder 6
  • C++Builder 5
• VCL API (VCL units are linked into the application without any external DLLs):
  • Embarcadero RAD Studio XE2
  • Embarcadero RAD Studio XE
  • Embarcadero RAD Studio 2010
  • CodeGear RAD Studio 2009
  • CodeGear RAD Studio 2007
  • Delphi XE2 (Win32 and x64 platforms)
  • Delphi XE
  • Delphi 2010
  • Delphi 2009
  • Delphi 2007
  • Delphi 2006
  • Delphi 2005
  • Delphi 7
  • Delphi 6
  • Delphi 5
  • C++Builder XE2 (Win32 platform)
  • C++Builder XE
  • C++Builder 2010
  • C++Builder 2009
  • C++Builder 2007
  • C++Builder 6
  • C++Builder 5

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