so along the same lines as a previous post I need to be able to display a PDF file from binary data stored in an SQL field without writing that file to disk first.
I found a way to encode images in base64 and embed the base64 string in a web page to display it in a Microsoft WebBrowser control, unfortunately this approach doesn't appear to work for PDF files (Apparently it would if it was chrome )
This needs to be deploy able to existing clients without the need for installing extra apps, so it either needs to be done using native windows abilities (such as embedding in a web page for display in IE) OR use whichever PDF viewer they have installed (Adobe, Foxit etc etc).
as always I will keep researching while waiting for responses but any help is appreciated!