Saving FlowDocument to SQL Server

Question

I need to save WPF FlowDocuments to SQL Server. What is the best format for doing that? String? Blob? Does it matter in a document less than 5K words or so?

Answer 1

FlowDocument is not serializable so SWeko's answer above will not work. You can use the methods below to get the FlowDocument to and from a Xaml string which can then be saved in the database using nvarchar(max).

    var stringReader = new StringReader(info);
    var xmlTextReader = new XmlTextReader(stringReader);
    return (FlowDocument)XamlReader.Load(xmlTextReader);

and

    var infoString = XamlWriter.Save(info);