Question

i want to store a word documents (.doc) in the database and i need to provide search over a collection of Word documents and highlight the words too.

I m using VS2005 –> ASP.NET, C#.NET, SQL Server.

Answer 1

you can store it in DB as a BLOB (Binary Large OBject).

Something similar would work

string filePath = "";
string connectionString = "";
FileStream stream = 
   new FileStream(filePath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);
BinaryReader reader = new BinaryReader(stream);
byte[] file = reader.ReadBytes((int)stream.Length);
reader.Close();
stream.Close();

SqlCommand command;
SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(connectionString);
command = 
   new SqlCommand("INSERT INTO FileTable (File) Values(@File)", connection);
command.Parameters.Add("@File", SqlDbType.Binary, file.Length).Value = file;
connection.Open();
command.ExecuteNonQuery();

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  How to store word documents in Database using C#