Question

I am building a C# desktop application and I need to save a file into a SQL Server database. I have come up with some file chooser which gives me the correct path of the file. How can I save that file into the database using its path?

Answer 1

FileStream fs = new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);
BinaryReader br = new BinaryReader(fs);
int numBytes = new FileInfo(fileName).Length;
byte[] buff = br.ReadBytes(numBytes);

Then you upload it to the DB like anything else, I’m assume you are using a varbinary column (BLOB)