How can I remove the customization from a VSTO document?

Question

How can I remove the customization from a VSTO document?

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Answer 1

Visual Studio Tools for Office provides a class named ServerDocument which can access the cached data and application manifest in a customized document. In Office 2003 projects, this class is implemented by VSTO 2005 SE Runtime and included in the namespace Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Runtime, while it is implemented by VSTO 3.0 Runtime and included in the Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications namespace for Office 2007 projects.

Since the implementations of VSTO 2005 SE Runtime and VSTO Runtime 3.0 are different, the usages of the two ServerDocument classes are also not consistent. However, for the RemoveCustomization() method, they are identical and only requires a string type parameter which points to the full path of the document which you want to remove the customization. Please refer to the below codes to achieve these results:

private static void Remove(string fileName)

{

    if (ServerDocument.IsCustomized(fileName))

    {

        ServerDocument.RemoveCustomization(fileName);

        MessageBox.Show("The customization has been removed.");

    }

    else

    {

        MessageBox.Show("The specified document is not " +

            "customized.");

    }

}

(Related forum thread http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsto/thread/a0cdb75a-b143-47f4-909d-5af529ec704f/ )

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Answer 2

Add VB version codes,

Private Shared Sub Remove(ByVal fileName As String)
    If(ServerDocument.IsCustomized(fileName)) Then
        ServerDocument.RemoveCustomization(fileName)
        MessageBox.Show("The customization has been removed.")
    Else
        MessageBox.Show("The specified document is not " + "customized.")
    End If
End Sub

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