Is there any library to access OLE Structured Storage from C#?

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Can I find some open source library for accessing (reading only is ok) OLE Storage like doc or xls files in c#?

I assume it's present in the today's .NET Framework: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.packaging.storageinfo(v=vs.110).aspx — Vlad, Jun 19 '16 at 12:41

score 20 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 23 '10 at 06:57

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You can use my open source (MPL) library OpenMCDF for a 100% .net implementation of COM structured storage. A sample COM structured storage file viewer is also available as a usage sample of the library.

answered Aug 23 '10 at 06:57

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thanks dude. Will definitely try. – Rohit Aug 25 '10 at 13:32
Cannot see any code to get Author, summary, etc :( – James Westgate Oct 26 '11 at 16:29
+1 Nice work! :) Some improvement points: the CHM file does not open on my machine and it might be good to add some basic example code on how to use it here. :) – user2173353 Feb 25 '16 at 10:40
Any chance there is an implementation for parsing SummaryInformation streams? : http://sedna-soft.de/articles/summary-information-stream/. That would be really cool. :) – user2173353 Feb 25 '16 at 12:30

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered May 24 '10 at 18:51

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An excellent article describes the usage.

COM structured storage from .NET

answered May 24 '10 at 18:51

Rohit

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered May 24 '10 at 13:38

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OleDbConnection can handle structured storage as long as the appropriate OLE DB driver is installed on the machine your app is running on.

Excel:

Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=c:\myFolder\myExcel2007file.xlsx;
    Extended Properties="Excel 12.0 Xml;HDR=YES";

Text:

Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=c:\txtFilesFolder\;
    Extended Properties="text;HDR=Yes;FMT=Delimited";

ConnectionStrings.com has a whole host of other Data Sources that you can access via OLE with the built-in libraries.

answered May 24 '10 at 13:38

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I want to do it with solidworks files :) Thanks for that info :) – Rohit May 24 '10 at 14:21
I have a binary structured text file, can I use OleDbConnection to read this file?, – fhnaseer May 28 '13 at 12:56

Is there any library to access OLE Structured Storage from C#?

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