I'm trying to write a program thats backs up certain files at set intervals to my cd-rw, I will be using C# under Win XP pro.
For those that don't know, to copy a file to CD-R in XP you drag and drop the file to the cdrw drive (doesn't write to cd yet), then you have to click on 'write these files to the cd-r' which starts the write.
My first attempt at writing an app to do this for me, I just used a simple File.Copy() method to copy the files to the drive, this didn't work and threw up an unauthorised access exception, not sure why.
Then I read there is an IMAPI library as part of the Win api, this can be used to write to cd-rw but the problem is I'm not too well up on using interop in C# and second, all the documentation for the IMAPI is missing from the msdn site (404 error).
Can anyone help me with this? thanks
Dom.
For those that don't know, to copy a file to CD-R in XP you drag and drop the file to the cdrw drive (doesn't write to cd yet), then you have to click on 'write these files to the cd-r' which starts the write.
My first attempt at writing an app to do this for me, I just used a simple File.Copy() method to copy the files to the drive, this didn't work and threw up an unauthorised access exception, not sure why.
Then I read there is an IMAPI library as part of the Win api, this can be used to write to cd-rw but the problem is I'm not too well up on using interop in C# and second, all the documentation for the IMAPI is missing from the msdn site (404 error).
Can anyone help me with this? thanks
Dom.
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