Question

I have a stream of bytes which actually (if put right) will form a valid Word file, I need to convert this stream into a Word file without writing it to disk, I take the original stream from SQL Server database table:

ID   Name    FileData
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1    Word1   292jf2jf2ofm29fj29fj29fj29f2jf29efj29fj2f9 (actual file data)

the FileData field carries the data.

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application word = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application();
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document doc = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document(); 
doc = word.Documents.Open(@"C:\SampleText.doc");
doc.Activate();

The above code opens and fill a Word file from File System, I don’t want that, I want to define a new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document, but I want to fill its content manually from byte stream.

After getting the in-memory Word document, I want to do some parsing of keywords.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

1. Create an in memmory file system, there are drivers for that.
2. Give word a path to an ftp server path (or something else) which you then use to push the data.

One important thing to note: storing files in a database is generally not good design.