On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:41:48 -0700, Maura Jenkins <mj@nospam.comwrote:
Hi Everyone ...
I have a bunch of BLOB data (MS Word and PDF docs mainly) stored in SQL
2005; no problems with ordinary CRUD operations but I'd like to read my
data and "feed it" to a Process() object so the user can retrieve a
document
and have it open in Word or Acrobat without my first writing it to disk
And I'm lost on next steps here ... anyone got a suggestion?
If I understand your question correctly, then no...the OS just isn't built
that way. Short of hacking the application, you can't just inject data
into it like that. The application would have to be written specifically
to support that sort of operation. Word, and I'm pretty sure Acrobat
(Reader or full version), simply does not at all, and certainly not in a
way that would be supported through the Process object (which can only
redirect the standard input and output streams for a given process).
Pete