Problem using large binary segment in OOXML

Question

System Description

A plotting component that uses OOXML to generate a document.

Plotting component consists of several parts. All parts are written in C++ as exe + dll's, with the exception of the interface to the OOXML document. The latter component is a COM component that was created in C#/.NET. The main reason for this is that the .NET framework contains System.IO.Packaging. This is a very handy built-in facility for dealing with OOXML documents.

We create a document out of a template OOXML document where certain bits and pieces are replaced by their actual content.

One of these bits is an OLE Server component. Basically this is a binary segment within the OOXML file. For writing this binary segment, the Packaging component apparently uses isolated storage.

Problem

Writing a segment > 8MB results in an exception being thrown "Unable to determine the identity of the domain".

On the C++ side this exception contains the error ISS_E_ISOSTORE ( 0x80131450 ).

We have analyzed this and as far as we can tell, this is a security feature that prevents semi-untrusted third-party component from completely ruining your HD by writing immense files.

We have then tried a lot of things in the .NET/COM component ( creating custom AppDomains, setting Attributes for maximum permissivity, Creating our own Streams and passing those to the Packaging component ) but every time it resulted in the same exception being thrown.

What could we do to make this work?

Could it be that when the .NET component is instantiated as a COM component, its AppDomain is alway untrusted?

Answer 1

You might try to unzip the package yourself (instead of using the .NET package API), write directly to the file which represents the binary segment and zip it again.

Answer 2

You should change the title of that question since your problem is not OOXML related.

Other than that: what system are you working on that 8MB chunks of data result in the risk of totalling your hard drive?