Creating Presentation from MemoryStream

Aspose.Slides Product Family
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I am trying to open a presentation from a MemoryStream. I create the MemoryStream from a byte array read from a Database. When trying to create the presentation I recieve "Unable to read entire header; 0 bytes read; expected 512 bytes" I can write the same stream out to the response stream and open the PPT file.

Code:

MemoryStream str = new MemoryStream();

fileBytes = Section.getSlides( sectionID ); //this is the byte array from the database.

str.Write( fileBytes , 0 , size );

//works with lower line commented out! Uncommented throws an error.

Aspose.Slides.Presentation SlideSet = new Aspose.Slides.Presentation( str );

HttpContext.Current.Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint";

Response.AddHeader( "Content-Disposition" , "attachment;filename=Values Presentation" );

str.WriteTo( Response.OutputStream ); // the stream is fine!

Response.Flush();

str.Close();

I am using version 2.8.9.0 of the Aspose.Slide dll - unlicensed at this point.

Am I missing something?

Thanks!

Updated Information:

I am able to Create a Presentation Object with a FileStream linking to the same file on disk, but not with the MemoryStream opening the file from the database.

Should I be able to use MemoryStream?

Thanks!

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Before using MemoryStream set its position to 0 e.g.

ms.Postion=0; //ms is MemoryStream object
Presentation pres=new Presentation(ms);