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willie v.'s avatar
willie v.
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

file access without download

Hello

Ive been asked by a company to develop a application for them that will do all their quotes. currently all the items they sell is on a excel book and they want to keep using the excel book to do the costing for items.

so the problem is i need to get the data from the excel book and use it in my app but they obviously dont want the other people using the app to download or have access to the file as it contains all their suppliers etc...

is there a way to load the info from a excel file into a .net app directly without downloading the file??

 

thanks !!!

Willie

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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
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    10 years ago

    Hi Haseeb, as discussed earlier in this thread, in order to access the content of a file via the Dropbox API, you need to download it. In a client-side app like on Android, this will mean that the access token will need to be in the app, and you can't prevent the users of your app from accessing it.

  • haseeb t.'s avatar
    haseeb t.
    New member | Level 1
    10 years ago

    Thanks Gregory.

    you say that the i need to download first and work on it?

    And another question is this that the file i want to download which is database file and i wanna applying searching queries on that file and show specific record as user want.

     

    Is this possible to access database file and applying searching techniques on it and showing in specific order in android app.?

    help me i have no idea about this.... 

  • Richard P.'s avatar
    Richard P.
    Icon for Super User alumni rankSuper User alumni
    10 years ago

    you say that the i need to download first and work on it?

    That is correct - Dropbox works at the file level, so you need to download the entire file if you want to work on it.

    Is this possible to access database file and applying searching techniques on it and showing in specific order in android app.?

    That's beyond the scope of this forum I am afraid, as you are asking how to read data from an Microsoft Access database. Try googling or asking on StackOverflow,com

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