Saving open work files with VS 2008 and C#

Question

Does anyone have a good how-to or links to identify open Word, Excel, etc (Office files in general), and using C# code in MS VS2008 save them to a certain folder?

Answer 1

What you wrote is unclear, do you want to identify open Word processes/documents or do you want to open a new word document and save it?

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William Wegerson (www.OmegaCoder.Com)

Answer 2

Thanks for your reply William.

The first one that you mentioned ie I would like to be able to identify any documents that I have open on my PC (eg Document1.doc, Document2.doc, etc), and write C# code in VS2008 to save these to a defined folder.

At the moment, I have a program working that opens a new Word document, writes some text it in and closes the Word application, so I presume that its now a case of writing some additional code to identify the open Word processes/Docs and save these.  I have included this code as below, in its class called WordDoc.cs

using

 

System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word;
using Microsoft.Office;
using System.Reflection;

namespace WordClass
{

 

class WordDoc
{

 

public static void WordClass()

{

//Missing Null Values
Object oMissing = System.Reflection.Missing.Value;

 

//True and false objects
Object oTrue = true;
Object oFalse = false;

 

//Create Word and document
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application oWord = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application();
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document oWordDoc = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document();

 

//Make the Word app display
oWord.Visible = true;

 

 

//Create a new document
oWordDoc = oWord.Documents.Add(ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing);

 

//Insert a paragraph at the beginning of the document
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Paragraph oPara1;
oPara1 = oWordDoc.Content.Paragraphs.Add(ref oMissing);
oPara1.Range.Text = "Testing writing some text into the document";

 

 

//Save file as
Object oSaveAsFile = (Object)"C:\\SampleDoc.doc";
oWordDoc.SaveAs(ref oSaveAsFile, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing,
ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing,
ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing,
ref oMissing, ref oMissing);

 

//File close
oWordDoc.Close(ref oFalse, ref oMissing, ref oMissing);

 

//App close
oWord.Quit(ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing);
}}}

Thanks,

Stephen

Answer 3

One can identify running applications via methods in the System.diagnostics namespace. Check out (Get a List of Running Processes in C# ). But you won't be able to remotely, for lack of a better term, be able to save other office documents to specified folders. Processes are not meant to piggy back and manipulate other processes, that would lead to to man security issues. (AFAIK)

HTH GL

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William Wegerson (www.OmegaCoder.Com)

Answer 4

Thanks for the reply William.  I have now included a version of the running processes section (from the link that you sent) in my code.  Is there any work-around for identifying open Word and Office applications and save them to a specified folder or even a default folder?

Answer 5

Hi,

As I learnt from your post, you are trying to get the running instance of office.

You might want to take a look at step-by-step article about how to create a Microsoft Visual C# 2005 or Microsoft Visual C# .NET client that gets an Automation Reference to a running instance of an Office program.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/316126

Harry

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