I haven't seen a WiX developer yet that wasn't helpful and open. I'm
impressed with the fact that the entire team is very active in this mailing
list.
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Christopher Painter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> 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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