At 12:51 PM 3/2/2005, you wrote:
Stadin, Benjamin wrote:
> Is it possible to embed a pdb into the prc as resource?
> I've a 800 KB encrypted pdb file which I generate for my
> read only application and would like to ship only the prc.

What about just choosing your own resource type and then
including each PDB record as a PRC record?  The API would
be a little different, but not hugely different, especially
since it's read-only.  You get back a MemHandle either way.

Of course, this approach doesn't scale well to multiple PDBs,
since you'd have to think of a resource type for each one,
but if you only have one PDB ever, it should be possible.

I use a similar tactic for my SXSW schedule application -- except that rather than generating a lot of records, I generate two resources -- an index resource and a data resource. The index has a list of fixed-length records, and I use that to point into one or more data blob resources for variable-length information.


This avoids lots of small items and works really well for quick access to read-only information.

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