Where to begin....
I've inherited a application that searches for strings within files from a previous programmer (that had no documenation) its using EPocalipse.IFilter namespace. It has a few issues, the first of which is the VS Project is missing FilterReader.cs, FilterLoader.cs, among others I believe are required for EPocalipse IFilters (based on my research). The second is that the app (when built) is hanging on ReadToEnd() when run against .
I found this thread here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1883915/textreader-read-and-readtoend-hangs-without-throwing-exception
Which was awesome...except no posted solution was given =( Since I have this issue and others, I figured I'd start a new thread since I first want to ensure IFilter is installed properly. The project builds, but still hangs on certain files (usually MS Excel).
For example, if I try to "Go to Definition" in Visual Studio for my instantiation of FilterReader, it simply shows the tab "FilterReader [from metadata]". So I'm assuming the FilterReader.cs file is simply missing (its nowhere in the projects solution explorer either), which may be the cause of the hanging problem as well?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
SK