I have an Access app/db with a memo field that contains RTF (from a rich
text control on a form in the app). I have a C#/Windows Forms app that I
need to take the RTF text and convert it to "normal" text. If I lose things
like bolding, italics, I don't care. I'm really just interested in getting
the raw text out of this. Also, there are no images in the RTF. The only
reason RTF was used was so users of the Access app could markup the text
where emphasis was needed (e.g. bold, italize).
I thought I could use a RichTextField control to do this for me. I would
pull out the RTF contents from the Access db (via ADO.NET) and set the rtf
property on the RichTextField control. Then I would use the text property
of the RichTextField to get the raw, clean text. Well when I try to assign
the RTF contents from the Access db directly to the rtf property I get an
ArgumentException where the message is "Invalid file format". Any ideas
what could be causing this?
Thanks!