As an aside,  we do have the source code to all those internal classes :)   And 
more importantly we have a developer who in the very few days I've known him 
has been extremly open and cordial in addressing questions about the classes 
and even taking suggestions from improvement from such an obvious C# rookie as 
me who happens to have a bit of domain knowledge the classes are trying to 
address.

  
Christopher Karper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  Shouldn't matter.   I can get the data to and from the file with no issue.  
It's just trying to get the data into the memorystream instead f the filestream 
is an issue.

The RecordStream object in DTF looks like it might be useful, but in typical MS 
fashion, the useful foundation classes are internal instead of public, LOL.

I appreciate your help.  I'll just keep banging on it from here.

Chris

  On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Christopher Painter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
    Ok, I was wondering how you were going to read binary data into a string.  
I'm not the best C# guy in the world but I'll see what I can learn here.  I am 
wondering though,  is your text unicode or ansi and would it even matter? 
    
     
   
  
Christopher Karper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  It's text, and I'm running as a custom action, so my database should already 
be available.

I'm opening the view with a joined query, but getting the same data.  I can get 
the record fine, and I can get the stream fine, it's when I try to read from 
the StreamReader wrapper that I run into issues.


I'm trying to read out the text data stored in the binaries table, then modify 
it.  I'm trying to avoid using a temp file if I can, since I only need it in 
memory.

Chris

  On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Christopher Painter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
    What is the type of script?
   
  Eitherway, would this work for you?
   
  
Database db = new Database("C:\\TEST.MSI", DatabaseOpenMode.ReadOnly);   
View view = db.OpenView("SELECT `Name`, `Data` From `Binary` WHERE 
`Binary`.`Name` = 'ISXMLCFG.DLL'");   view.Execute();
  
foreach (Record rec in view) using (rec)   {
  
Stream stream = rec["Data"] as Stream;   }
  
    
       
  

Christopher Karper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


      
  I'm trying to read binary data into a memory stream, but 

    Stream stream = binRec.GetStream("Data");
    using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(stream))
    {
        script += sr.ReadToEnd();
    }



Gives me an ArgumentNullException when I try to read the stream.   Am I missing 
a step?


Is this stream not compatible with a streamreader?

Chris


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