LiteCDF

A high performance reader of compound document format (CDF) files.

Usage

Opening a compound file:

CompoundFile cf = Cdf.Open(@"C:\path\to\file.cf");

This will return an object with all the directory entries contained in the file. There are overloads available that can read from a Stream or a byte[] object for extra convenience.

If you just want to quickly extract a stream, you can use the OpenAndReadStream method instead. Its second parameter is a predicate that specifies how to match the name of the stream to extract:

byte[] stream = Cdf.OpenAndReadStream(@"C:\path\to\file.cf", n => n == "MyStream");

This method will return as soon as a matching stream has been found.

To extract more than one stream that matches a specific pattern, you can use the OpenAndReadMultipleStreams:

Dictionary<string, byte[]> streams = Cdf.OpenAndReadMultipleStreams(@"C:\path\to\file.cf", n => n.EndsWith("Stream"));

This will return any matching streams in the form of a dictionary where each key-value pair represents the name and the associated byte array of the stream, respectively.