How to make streams from BLOBs available in plain old C# objects when using SqlDataReader?

Question

This is the scenario:

• We store files, e.g. relatively large documents (10-300MB), in blobs in our MSSQL database.
• We have a very small domain model so we

Answer 1

Note that .net 4.5 now does this OOB - SqlDataReader.GetStream()

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.sqlclient.sqldatareader.getstream(v=vs.110).aspx