filestream

Download pdf programatically...

Hi, How can I download a pdf and store to disk using vb.net or c#? The url (of the pdf) has some rediection going on before the final pdf is reached. I tried the below but the pdf seems corrupted when I attempt to open locally, Dim PdfFile As FileStream = File.OpenWrite(saveTo) Dim PdfStream As MemoryStream = GetFileStream(pdfURL) Pd...

Something like System.Diagnostics.Process.Start to run a stream

Hi, I get from server images and videos by stream. Now I'm saving it: Stream str = client.GetFile(path); using (var outStream = new FileStream(@"c:\myFile.jpg", FileMode.Create)) { var buffer = new byte[4096]; int count; w...

Programatically find out a file type by looking its binary content. Possible?

I have a c# component that will recieve a file of the following types .doc, .pdf, .xls, .rtf These will be sent by the calling siebel legacy app as a filestream. So... [LegacyApp] >> {Binary file stream} >> [Component] The legacy app is a black box that cant be modified to tell the component what file type (doc,pdf,xls) it is sendi...

What is the largest file size we can transfer through air application?

Hi all, I'm trying to transfer large file(1Gb+) using UDP(in packets) through air application. I'm transfering byteArray by taking chunks of packets from FileStream. But its giving 'Error #1000: The system is out of memory' at sender side after certain number of packets sent and by this time the downloaded file size at server side is 25...

C# FileStream position is off after calling ReadLine()

I'm trying to read a (small-ish) file in chunks of a few lines at a time, and I need to return to the beginning of particular chunks. The problem is, after the very first call to streamReader.ReadLine(); the streamReader.BaseStream.Position property is set to the end of the file! Now I assume some caching is done in the backstage, ...

using Object input\ output Streams with files and array list

hi every one .. i'm an it student , and it's time to finish my final project in java , i've faced too many problems , this one i couldn't solve it and i'm really ubset ! :S my code is like this : in Admin class : public ArrayList cos_info = new ArrayList(); public ArrayList cas_info = new ArrayList(); public int cos_count = 0 ; ...

creating a file from input stream

My component will receive a pdf file as a filestream from which I will need to create a file. For testing purposes I am trying to read a file using the filestream object and recreate it at a different location. But the recreated file is created blank. the recreated file has the same number of pages though... This is the code StreamRea...

how to send binary data within an xml string

I want to send a binary file to .net c# component in the following xml format <BinaryFileString fileType='pdf'> <!--binary file data string here--> </BinaryFileString> In the called component I will use the above xml string and convert the binary string received within the BinaryFileString tag, into a file as specified by the file...

Is there an alternative of using a VBScript for enabling FileStream after SQL Server installation?

To use Filestream on a DB 3 steps must be done: 1) enable it a server/instance level 2) enable it (sp_configure) at DB level 3) create a varbinary(max) field that supports filestream (2) and (3) are done easily with T-SQL (1) is doable manually from SQL Server Configuration Manager, basically what I need is to check all the 3 checkb...

Does binarywriter.flush() also flush the underlying filestream object?

I have got a code snippet as follows: Dim fstream = new filestream(some file here) dim bwriter = new binarywriter(fstream) while not end of file read from source file bwriter.write() bwriter.flush() end while The question I have is the following. When I call bwriter.flush() does it also flush the fstream object? Or should ...

Filestream writing to file and reading the bfile

I have a web service that checks a dictionary to see if a file exists and then if it does exist it reads the file, otherwise it saves to the file. This is from a web app. I wonder what is the best way to do this because I occasionally get a FileNotFoundException exception if the same file is accessed at the same time. Here's the relevan...

XmlDocument.WriteTo truncates resultant file

Trying to serialize an XmlDocument to file. The XmlDocument is rather large; however, in the debugger I can see that the InnerXml property has all of the XML blob in it -- it's not truncated there. Here's the code that writes my XmlDocument object to file: // Write that string to a file. var fileStream = new FileStream("AdditionalData...

byte stream and character stream

Hi, Please explain byte stream and character stream files. What exactly these means , is microsoft word document is byte oriented or character oriented ? Thanks ...

FileUpload to FileStream

Hello, I am in process of sending the file along with HttpWebRequest. My file will be from FileUpload UI. Here i need to convert the File Upload to filestream to send the stream along with HttpWebRequest. How do i convert the FileUpload to a filestream? ...

FileStream.Read(...): Will I ever get a nibble rather than byte?

Hi All, I'm doing a number of bitwise operations on an array of bytes in C#. I'm obtaining the array by calling FileStream.Read. I just realized that I'm not sure what would happen if a file had a bad byte or corrupt byte in it somewhere. For example, maybe a nibble is chopped off of the end or something like that. What would the Fi...

Sensible use of SQL Server 2008 FileStream?

I have an ASP.NET MVC application and I want to embed on each page some help content. This will be HTML pages that will be loaded into a dialog or new browser page (to be decided). Obviously I could store this in a max text field in the DB, but I also think I could store it in a FileStream. This sounds appealing to me as it would allow m...

Check SQL Server 2008 FIlestream status

Hello guys, Im using sql server 2008 filestream feature in one of my projects, is there a way to check the filestream status (if its enabled or not) using a query? Thanks in advance. ...

Emulate waiting on File.Open in C# when file is locked

I have, essentially, the same problem as this poster, but in C#: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1746781/waiting-until-a-file-is-available-for-reading-with-win32 More information: we have code that calls File.Open in one of our projects, that occasionally dies when the file is already opened by another process (EDIT: or thread): Fil...

Simple C++ Writing to File: Nothing Gets Written! Should be easy, but I'm stumpted.

Thank you so much for helping me! Everyone is so fast and excellent! Thanks again! What is happening is no data is being written to my file, after I test this code. Just a 0 appears. What am I doing wrong? void CreateHtmlFile(string myMessages[]) { int i = 0; int emptyarray = 0; int myEmptyCounter = 0; int emptyArrayCounter = ...

Does perforce supports file streams on Windows?

Does Perforce supports file streams on Windows, on NTFS? ...