Paul Kimmel is an architect for TriState Hospital Supply Corporation and the co-founder of the Greater Lansing Area .NET Users Group (glugnet.org). Look for his new book, UML DeMystified (McGraw-Hill/Osborne, October 2005), and his upcoming book, C# Express for Professional Programmers (Addison-Wesley, Spring 2006). If you have a programming question you can contact him at pkimmel@softconcepts.com.
Memory mapped files use the system's memory manager and let you treat large files as if they were in-memory objects, supporting extremely large file access, faster access, and multiple, simultaneous processes accessing the same file.
