c# Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document to Stream

Question

I have a active document :

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document document = Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.ActiveDocument;

How I can convert this to stream?

Or even better, how to send active document to rest web service?

Thanks

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:32

Which rest-service? If it's SharePoint or the like i'm used to just calling the SaveAs function as follows:

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document document = Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.ActiveDocument;
document.SaveAs("https://www.contoso.sharepoint.com/Documents/Document1.docx");

Edit: P.S. You can serialize anything to Stream. found an answer here

public static MemoryStream SerializeToStream(object o)
{
    MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();
    IFormatter formatter = new BinaryFormatter();
    formatter.Serialize(stream, o);
    return stream;
}

public static object DeserializeFromStream(MemoryStream stream)
{
    IFormatter formatter = new BinaryFormatter();
    stream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
    object o = formatter.Deserialize(stream);
    return o;
}

Doesn't work - a `Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document` is not serializable. — Conrad, Nov 24 '21 at 18:14

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 29 '17 at 23:02

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Save to a temp file then read file content as required by the rest service, e.g. byte array. Or use Open XML SDK if older Word formats are not required.

answered Oct 29 '17 at 23:02

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