EDB file format

Question

Do I need EDB format information in an Exchange database?

I checked the information provided in the following link:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/libesedb/files/

The documentation was good, but rather confusing, so I need more help.

If any authority has more information about the EDB format, please provide it to me.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Answer 1

There is not as much information as you found. What you can do is take a look at the following three links, I hope they tell you everything else you can learn:

• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb310772.aspx - Information about the architecture of the Engine Extensible Storage Engine.
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms683068%28EXCHG.10%29.aspx - Engine Engine extensible files; lists other file types associated with the Extensible extension engine.
• http://everything.explained.at/Extensible_Storage_Engine - Explains an extensible storage engine.

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

Since I am currently working on the EDB Exchange format, I could answer some question. I use libesedb as the main source of information, but in other cases I chose to access EDB using the expansion storage API (for example, JetBlue, aka Esent API). So, if you can ask a specific question, I can try to answer it for you.

By the way, as I see you are using .net as a tag for this post, I would like to draw your attention to the Laurion Burchall Managed Esent API (open source). This somewhat reduces the cryptic complexity of the Windows API and may be useful for you to “manage” it:
http://managedesent.codeplex.com/