Hello. I want to display a dynamic header in my Crystal Report(Visual Studio). These headers are generally created in word documents. Inside it, there is picture and text. I also want to store the file in database. Here what I have tried so far:
1) When I use CR interface and select insert OLE Object, I can select doc file and it gets the content. So I decided directly to convert word file into bits by using FileStream and BinaryReader. Then I stored this bits in SQL DataBase as var . When I drag field object CR it couldn't recognize the file. (It did not worked as I insert OLE object) Probably because in SQL it is stored as varbinary and CR tries to convert it directly to blob object. If there is something wrong with my logic please correct.
2) I tried to screen shot the word document and store the image in database. It works with this way but then it requires effort to adjust the image for user. (Last option)
3) I tried using some 3. party libraries like ImageMagick but this is taking whole page as image. (I need only writen areas)
Is there a way to use word document, which is stored in database, to use in Crystal Reports?