How to virus scan a DOCX Document in C# .NET Framework

I won’t lie to you, virus scanning in C# is a long and difficult process. Don’t worry about that, though, as we’ve already done this work for you. It’s ready to go in a handy API. Let me show you how to set it up.

To start off with, we should install our client using this command for package manager.

Install-Package Cloudmersive.APIClient.NET.VirusScan -Version 2.0.3

Wait for that to finish, then invoke our virus scanning function.

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using Cloudmersive.APIClient.NET.VirusScan.Api;
using Cloudmersive.APIClient.NET.VirusScan.Client;
using Cloudmersive.APIClient.NET.VirusScan.Model;
namespace Example
{
public class ScanFileExample
{
public void main()
{
// Configure API key authorization: Apikey
Configuration.Default.AddApiKey("Apikey", "YOUR_API_KEY");
// Uncomment below to setup prefix (e.g. Bearer) for API key, if needed
// Configuration.Default.AddApiKeyPrefix("Apikey", "Bearer");
var apiInstance = new ScanApi();
var inputFile = new System.IO.Stream(); // System.IO.Stream | Input file to perform the operation on.
try
{
// Scan a file for viruses
VirusScanResult result = apiInstance.ScanFile(inputFile);
Debug.WriteLine(result);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Debug.Print("Exception when calling ScanApi.ScanFile: " + e.Message );
}
}
}
}

The API will now scan our file for over 17 million virus definitions, which are constantly being update via cloud. Not bad.