>The current version of our application is in VFP. The next major release will be in .Net. Once piece that is coming up in the migration has me concerned, and I thought I would ask the experts.
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>Our data is stored (in both versions) in SQL. We do some documentation that get turned into a PDF document. In our current version, we use the FileToStr() function to store that data in the database in a queue. We then have an interface process that runs (also in VFP) that cycles on a timed bases, checks for any records in the queue that haven't been sent. It then uses the STRTOFILE() function to recreate that PDF and transfer to an external system.
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>Our interface module will probably be staying in VFP after the main application has been converted to .NET. Okay, so my question is,
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>1. Is there a function in .NET (C#) that works like the FileToStr?
>2. If so, will VFP StrToFile function be able to read that string value created in C# and still create the PDF?
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>Thanks for you in site.
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>Kirk

Kirk,

If you are reading/writing pdf files, you use a byte array and not a string in .net
Reading data from disk (other than a text file) needs to be stored in a byte[]. - or better use Streams