IStorage::CopyTo

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This method copies the entire contents of an open storage object to another storage object.

Syntax

HRESULT CopyTo( 
  DWORD ciidExclude, 
  IID const* rgiidExclude, 
  SNB snbExclude, 
  IStorage* pstgDest 
);

Parameters

• ciidExclude
  [in] Number of elements in the array pointed to by the rgiidExclude parameter. If rgiidExclude is NULL, then ciidExclude is ignored.

• rgiidExclude
  [in] Array of interface identifiers that either the caller knows about and does not want to be copied or that the storage object does not support but whose state the caller will later explicitly copy.

  The array can include the IStorage interface, indicating that only stream objects are to be copied, and the IStream interface, indicates that only storage objects are to be copied.

  An array length of zero indicating that only the state exposed by the IStorage object is to be copied.

  All other interfaces on the object are to be ignored.

  Passing NULL indicates that all interfaces on the object are to be copied.

• snbExclude
  [in] String name block (see SNB) that specifies a block of storage or stream objects that are not to be copied to the destination.

  These elements are not created at the destination.

  If IID_IStorage is in the rgiidExclude array, this parameter is ignored.

  This parameter may be NULL.

• pstgDest
  [in] Pointer to the open storage object into which this storage object is to be copied.

  The destination storage object can be a different implementation of the IStorage interface from the source storage object. Therefore, IStorage::CopyTo can only use publicly available methods of the destination storage object.

  If pstgDest is open in transacted mode, it can be reverted by calling its IStorage::Revert method.

Return Value

The following table shows the return values for this method.

Remarks

This method merges elements contained in the source storage object with those already present in the destination. The layout of the destination storage object may differ from the source storage object.

The copy process is recursive, invoking IStorage::CopyTo and the IStream::CopyTo method on the elements nested inside the source.

When copying a stream on top of an existing stream with the same name, the existing stream is first removed and then replaced with the source stream.

When copying a storage on top of an existing storage with the same name, the existing storage is not removed.

As a result, after the copy operation, the destination IStorage contains older elements, unless they were replaced by newer ones with the same names.

A storage object may expose interfaces other than IStorage, including IRootStorage, IPropertyStorage, or IPropertySetStorage. The rgiidExcludeparameter provides a way to exclude any or all of these additional interfaces from the copy operation.

A caller with a newer or more efficient copy of an existing substorage or stream object may want to exclude the current versions of these objects from the copy operation. The snbExclude and rgiidExclude parameters provide two different ways of excluding storage objects existing storages or streams.

To determine whether the platform supports this interface, see Determining Supported COM APIs.

Note to Callers

The most common way to use this method is to copy everything possible from the source to the destination, as in most Full Save and SaveAs operations.

The following code example illustrates this call.

pstg->CopyTo(0, NULL, NULL, pstgDest)

Requirements

See Also

Reference

IFillLockBytes
IStorage
IStorage::Revert
IStream::CopyTo