Suggestion for Snapstream Devs: use alternate file streams

[DancesWithLysol]

Greetings,

Since I have the HTPC on the local network some people like to watch their shows on the TV and some people like to watch shows on their local machine over the network.

Unfortunately this also means that when they want to delete their show they right click --> delete the file. This generally leaves a bunch of XML files around. I don't think storing a parallel XML file is really a good way to handle this, so I have a suggestion: since your application is already limited to NT-based operating systems then using an alternate file stream is a perfect way to attach this data to a file. It might also make sense to use of the file summary fields for some of the file data (like the show description). Since Windows Explorer can add these fields as columns when in "details" view this data would be a lot more accessible to users who access these files via a file share.

A quick link to a MSDN article on the topic: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...html/ntfs5.asp

Thoughts?