How Do I Get The Compressedrtf Binary Data Out Of Bcm2007 Database Into A Rich Text Box In Vb6?

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I have a vb6 project which needs to access data in the sql database behind Business Contact Manager 2007.
In one of the tables there is a binary field called compressedrtf. It contains what you see in BCM when you view a history item.

How can I access that data and show it in a vb6 rich text box?
I think I need the adodb.stream object but am totally stuck and have spent many days trying to crack this.

Posted 6-Oct-15 5:25am

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Updated 7-Oct-15 3:02am

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter 7-Oct-15 9:20am

Can you put a not compressed RTF text into the RichTextBox control?

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Member 12037357 · Answer 1 · 2015-10-07T04:17:00

The RichTextBox control seems to be fine.
My problem is when I stream the binary data out of the database it appears not to be in RTF format.

I have tried 2 different approaches where txt is a variant , lrs is an adodb.recordset object and RTBbdt is the RichTextBox control

1
Set mStream = New ADODB.Stream
mStream.Type = adTypeText
mStream.Open
mStream.WriteText lrs("compressedrichtext")
mStream.SaveToFile "tmprtf.txt", adSaveCreateOverWrite
RTBbdt.FileName = "tmprtf.txt"

and
2
txt = lrs("compressedrichtext")
Set mStream = New ADODB.Stream
mStream.Type = adTypeText
mStream.Open
mStream.WriteText lrs("compressedrichtext")
mStream.SaveToFile "tmprtf.txt", adSaveCreateOverWrite
RTBbdt.Text = txt

Both just show garbled text in the rich text box.