SFMain object is very similar to the FileSystemObject (FSO) and many of its methods and properties duplicate the behaviour of the similar members of the FSO. However this library provides abstraction and access techniques which include more than just files and directories, therefore SFMain object differs from FSO but has the equivalent role - a root object providing general information and access to the other objects. In typical case you create it and all the other objects you may need later, are created by calling some method of the SFMain object.

The following example uses SFMain to create a file and obtains a SFStream object that can be used to read/write textual or binary data from/to the file:

Dim main, file
Set main = CreateObject("newObjects.utilctls.SFMain")
Set file = main.CreateFile("C:\somefile.txt")
file.WriteText "One line of text", 1
file.WriteText "Some more text"

CreateObject returns a SFMain object and then the CreateFile method is used to create a file and obtain a SFStream object and write some text to the file.

The following code does almost the same, but creates the file as stream of an existing OLE Compound file.

Dim main, olefile, strm
Set main = CreateObject("newObjects.utilctls.SFMain")
Set olefile = main.OpenStorageFile("C:\someolefile.stg")
Set strm = olefile.CreateStream("astream")
strm.WriteText "One line of text", 1
strm.WriteText "Some more text"

To learn more about how the files, directories, other streams and storages are represented and about their types see the concepts

	Drives	Collection of the logical drives
	CreateMemoryStream	Creates a stream in the memory.
	CreateStorageFile	Creates OLE compound file
	IsStorageFile	Checks if a file is an OLE compound file
	OpenStorageFile	Opens an OLE compound file.
	CreateDirectory	Creates a directory in the file system.
	OpenDirectory	Opens a file system directory (obtains a SFStorage object)
	CreateFile	Creates file in the file system and returns a SFStream object for it.
	OpenFile	Opens a file from the file system and returns a SFStream object for it
	FileExists	Checks if the file exists.
	FolderExists	Checks if the folder exists.
	Exists	Checks if the file or folder exists.
	DeleteFile	Deletes the file from the file system.
	DeleteFolder	Deletes the folder and its contents.
	GetDrive	Gets drive object.
	GetDriveName	Returns the drive part of a path.
	GetExtensionName	Returns the extension of the file name.
	GetFileName	Returns the file name from a given path.
	CopyFile	Copies file(s).
	GetOSInfo	Returns VarDictionary based data tree with detailed OS version information
	SysByteOrder	Returns the byte order flags for the current system.
	SystemLanguageSupport	Returns a collection with the supported/installed code pages or locales supported by the OS.
	GetFilePath	Returns the path name of the directory containing the file.
	GetSpecialPath	Returns the path for a special OS defined directory such as Desktop, Program files and so on.
	GetVersionInfo	Extracts the version information for given PE module (EXE, DLL, SYS files).
	NewGUID	Generates a UUID
	RegSvr32	Registers/unregisters a COM DLL with the system.

Supported on:

Windows 95/NT and later
Windows CE 3.0 and later
Pocket PC/Windows Mobile 2003 and later
Windows CE.NET 4 and later

Remarks: Some methods are not supported on all the platforms.