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Reputation: 3558

Generate hash of StorageFile

How to generate hash (for instance md5) of file contained in StorageFile ? I'd like to store hash value in database and look into it to avoid duplicate files.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 531

Answers (1)

Hermit Dave
Hermit Dave

Reputation: 3046

you can use HashAlgorithmProvider class to compute the hash

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.security.cryptography.core.hashalgorithmprovider.aspx

Have a look at this post so you don't get OOM for large files

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winappswithcsharp/thread/e8e538b5-1d71-4ba3-b1df-b74ec8978443

Upvotes: 2

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