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Decoding Attachments back to original format

Hi,

 

I have a Word document uploaded as an Attachment. When I query for this file in my code (using SforceOfficeToolkit) I get back an Attachment sobject from which I can access its blob (body). I believe the blob is encoded in Base64. To convert this blob back into the original Word format I use a Base64 decoder. The decoder doesn't work with documents that have headers/footers but it works otherwise.

 

Any ideas how to get this to work? Here's my decoder just in case:

 

 

        public static byte[] DecodeBase64(string b64)
        {
            MSXML2.DOMDocument objXML = new MSXML2.DOMDocument();
            MSXML2.IXMLDOMElement objNode = objXML.createElement("b64");
            objNode.set_dataType("bin.base64");
            objNode.text = b64;
            return (byte[])objNode.nodeTypedValue;
        }

 

Thanks!