How To Open An SPFile To Access Content

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Another question was asked in the newsgroups about how to get access to an SPFile object, and once that is object is harnessed, how to open the file in a binary read.

In order to go this, you should setup a new method that is taking a string parameter which will lead to the SPFile object. Decorate your method with public byte[] GetFileContent(string [parameter you want to name for the path to your file])
This will be used in the first part of the method when you getting a hold of the SPFile object:

SPFile oFile = oWeb.GetFile([parameter representing path to your file]);

Once you have referenced that file, it is a good practice to test whether the file exists:

if (oFile.Exists)

Then if it doesn’t fart at this point, complete the return to open the file in binary format:

if (oFile.Exists)
{
return oFile.OpenBinary();
}

Then componesate for the if/else statement, by completing the method as such:

else
{
return ((byte[]) null);
}

That should do the trick!

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