Introduction
This article is the seventh installment in a series on Novell Directory Services (NDS) programming, using the Novell Controls for ActiveX and Visual Basic. So far, we've talked about setting up your development environment, logging in to a directory, reading and searching NDS field values, writing data values to NDS fields, and creating directory entries. This article tells how to read and write stream field values.
| Objective |
Using this lesson as a guide, a Visual Basic programmer will be able to use the Session and Directory controls read and write stream data in fields of an NDS directory entry. |
| Prerequisites |
Entry-level Visual Basic programming skills, a DeveloperNet subscription (Electronic Level subscription available free at http://developer.novell.com) successful completion of CreateEntry task in previous article. |
| Required Items |
See "Required Setup." |
| Optional Items |
None. |
| Required Setup |
A NetWare 4 or 5 server, a Win32 workstation (Windows 95/98/NT) with installed software: the appropriate Novell Client for the operating system, Microsoft Visual Basic or Visual Studio, and the Novell Controls for ActiveX. |
| Development Environment |
The procedures discussed in this article were tested using a 200 MHz Pentium-based workstation with 64 MB RAM, running Windows NT 4.0, a NetWare 5.0 file server, the NetWare Client for NT 4.60, Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0, and the Novell Controls for ActiveX 1/25/99. |
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