How to display PDF from binary data in VB 6 project

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CAn anyone help me how to get Binary data from databse and display in PDF using VB 6.0

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I am not finding any solution .pls help.

Posted 27-Aug-20 1:51am

prusty from New Delhi

Updated 27-Aug-20 2:55am

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F-ES Sitecore 27-Aug-20 8:07am

The fact that you don't think it is relevant to tell us what the database is makes me think the task is probably beyond you. Also VB6 has been dead for a long time, you'll struggle to find anyone who can help you or any resources making this task even harder still. If I was you I'd google for "COM PDF viewer" to see if you can find a COM-based PDF viewer that someone else has written and just use that in your project.

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CHill60 · Answer 1 · 2020-08-27T02:55:00

Nothwithstanding that VB6 is long dead, you can use the VB6 "Web Browser Control" in Shdocvw.dll to display PDFs. Or you could embed PDFViewer.dll from Adobe Reader if you have it.

As to getting the data from the database - we can't really help without details of the database and how you have stored the binary data, but I will say that you need to ensure that you write the raw binary data to the file i.e. don't use a "text" file

VB

Open YourFilename For Binary Access Write

That's about as much as I can remember, I haven't had a VB6 install for nearly 20 years at home. This would all be a lot easier if you ditched VB6 (after all, Microsoft have) and used a more modern (e.g. .NET based) language