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Hey guys have a little problem here, I have a varbinary column in my db that has a byte[] stored in it. I can save it out ok but when I try read it back out I get an error saying Data at the root level is invalid. Line 1, position 1.

C#
private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
      {
          conn.Open();
          DataTable dt = GetXmlFileDataTable(conn);

          using(MemoryStream memStream = new MemoryStream((byte[])dt.Rows[0][0]))
          {
              memStream.Position = 0;
              byte[] array = memStream.ToArray();
              XDocument objXDoc = new XDocument();
              string xml = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(array);
              XDocument xmlDoc = XDocument.Parse(xml);
              string fileName = "VarBinary.xml";
              string path = Path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop), fileName);
              xmlDoc.Save(path);
              memStream.Dispose();
          }
          //button1.Enabled = true;
          //button2.Enabled = false;
          conn.Close();
      }


Cheers guys
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Sounds like the XML is invalid, or you're missing the doctype. .Net XML libraries do seem to be a bit picky about that.

Also, memStream.Dispose isn't necessary, the using block will close it for you.
 
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frostcox 17-May-12 10:31am    
What line should I include in the top for the doc type?
lewax00 17-May-12 10:35am    
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
is generally sufficient
frostcox 17-May-12 10:37am    
Thats not working, keeps throwing the error, when I first load the byte[] its 11900 bytes but when I read it out ir 10090, how is this possible? Thanks
lewax00 17-May-12 10:48am    
Not really sure, but I suggest outputting it into a plain text file and verifying the contents. If content is missing that would probably cause the error (e.g. missing closing tags)
frostcox 17-May-12 15:36pm    
Hi I found the answer, for some strange reason the data wasn't being read out properly when i saved it so I just reversed the process I used for reading the column, I.e file-xmldocument-byte[] and then save, thanks for your help.

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