Question

code snippet:

//byte[] myByteArray = byte array from database (database BLOB)  myByteArray = (byte[]) ((dbCommand.Parameters['parameter'].Value));  string myString =System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(myByteArray);  Xmldocument doc = new Xmldocument(); doc.Load(myString); 

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I am getting System.OutOfMemoryException sometimes.

string myString = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(myByteArray); 

when converting bytearray to string i am getting this error.

is there a way i can make this code robust.

All i am trying to do is loading the BLOB in byte array and then converting them to string and loading them in xmldocument to work with.

Answer 1

If you’ve got a string containing XML text, you actually want XmlDocument.LoadXML. XmlDocument.Load treats the string as a URL.

That said, XmlDocument.Load has overloads taking an XmlReader, a TextReader or a Stream. You can create a MemoryStream on the underlying byte array, and pass that; this avoids the string conversion.