Unable to read memo fields created by dotnetdbf writer using other dbf readers

[agaddampalli]

I have certain files which has memo fields and dotnetdbf writer created the dbt files for those.

        using (Stream fos = File.Open(@"E:\temp\estima.dbf", FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.ReadWrite))
        {
            var writer = new DBFWriter();
            writer.DataMemoLoc = @"E:\temp\estima.dbt";
            MemoValue emailVal = new MemoValue("[email protected]");
            var id = new DBFField("Id", NativeDbType.Numeric, 15, 0);
            var name = new DBFField("name", NativeDbType.Char, 30, 0);
            var address = new DBFField("address", NativeDbType.Date);
            var email = new DBFField("email", NativeDbType.Memo);

            var dbFields = new List<DBFField> { id, name, address, email };
            writer.Fields = dbFields.ToArray();
            List<object> values = new List<object> { 1, "Jhon", DateTime.Now, emailVal };
            writer.AddRecord(values.ToArray());

            writer.Write(fos);
        }

I tried to read these files using java xbase DBF reader to read the generated dbf file, it was unable to read the memo fields and throwing a null pointer exception.

I tried with other reader which had the same issue of reading the memo fields from dbt file.

Could you please help me getting through this issue

[jbtule]

I don't know? What libraries specifically? We use this to interoperate with clipper and harbour, and they work just fine.

[agaddampalli]

we work with http://xbasej.sourceforge.net/api/org/xBaseJ/DBF.html to read the DBF files