How to load a Word document from an array of bytes

Question

I have the MS Word file itself, which is saved in an array of bytes. I want to download it as if it were on the file system, but with minimal use of Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word, because it is very slow when it gets the .Open(args[]) part .Open(args[]) .

Answer 1

Try it....

  byte[] bte = File.ReadAllBytes("E:\\test.doc"); // Put the Reading file File.WriteAllBytes(@"E:\\test1.doc", bte); // Same contents you will get in byte[] and that will be save here 

Answer 2

There is no supported way to do this right now using Interop.Word , as there are no methods for supporting byte arrays.

As a viable workaround, you can use a temporary file as follows:

 // byte[] fileBytes = getFileBytesFromDB(); var tmpFile = Path.GetTempFileName(); File.WriteAllBytes(tmpFile, fileBytes); Application app = new word.Application(); Document doc = app.Documents.Open(filePath); // .. do your stuff here ... doc.Close(); app.Quit(); byte[] newFileBytes = File.ReadAllBytes(tmpFile); File.Delete(tmpFile); 

For more information, read this post .

Answer 3

The method public static byte[] ReadAllBytes( string path ) returns all file information to an array of bytes. You don’t need to worry about the stream, as the MSDN documentation says: "Given the path to the file, this method opens the file, reads the contents of the file into an array of bytes and then closes the file."

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