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New Post: cannot explicitly call operator or accessor

darkxer0x — Wed, 22 May 2013 19:31:46 GMT

I´ve "converted" all my code from Interop to NetOffice, except these two lines:

doc.set_AttachedTemplate(globalTemplatePath);
doc.Application.Selection.ParagraphFormat.set_Style("Normal");

The error is: 'NetOffice.WordApi._Document.AttachedTemplate.set': cannot explicitly call operator or accessor (in both lines)

I´ve tried with:

doc.AttachedTemplate = globalTemplatePath;
doc.Application.Selection.ParagraphFormat.Style = "Normal";

But same error. Any idea how to set these properties?

Thanks!

New Post: Outlook 2010 Windows 8 Error

baltazar_oliveira — Wed, 22 May 2013 14:07:13 GMT

Hi,

i´m using your program to save a message in Outlook. On Windows 8 gives a error (mscorlib system.unauthorized access).

In Windows 7 works ...

https://cloudpt.pt/link/0123acc6-c265-424b-9dc3-f153d800bfc1/CodigoOutlook_NetOffice.png
https://cloudpt.pt/link/513ee759-ed8d-4a9f-b9af-623ddbd00b5e/References_NetOffice.png

Please help.

Thanks

Baltazar

New Post: Excel Custom Task Pane

murtuzah — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:29:49 GMT

Is it not possible to do something like this, which seems a lot simpler:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/aa942846(v=vs.80).aspx

New Post: Excel Custom Task Pane

murtuzah — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:29:49 GMT

Is it not possible to do something like this, which seems a lot simpler:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/aa942846(v=vs.80).aspx

New Post: Excel Custom Task Pane

murtuzah — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:13:20 GMT

I am trying to create a dockable custom task pane in Excel. I have looked at the example but do not fully understand how to use it as it's not a complete example.

It seems as though I need to create a ICTPFactory which then creates a CTP based on a fully qualified class name (of the user control that I want to display inside the CTP).

My misunderstanding is with the factory - the example states

Office.ICTPFactory ctpFactory = new NetOffice.OfficeApi.ICTPFactory(_excelApplication, CTPFactoryInst);

what is the second parameter? How do I call CTPFactoryAvailable() - ie what object to I pass to it?

Also why does the example include lots of extra functions for registration and connection handling when the others do not? Is this purely coincidently and showing off more advanced API features or is it more of a legacy example from a previous version of the API?

Any tips guys, thanks?

Created Unassigned: Convert Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.ApplicationClass to NetOffice.COMObject [19742]

AndreasWaning — Tue, 21 May 2013 10:46:00 GMT

Hello,

I use Edraw Office Viewer to integrated MS Word in my WinForm Application.

The Tool has a method GetApplication. (See next lines)
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application application = (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application) axEDOffice1.GetApplication();

Now I wanted to attached the application object to NetOffice.WordApi.Application Object.
(Because I want to use the NetOffice Api to excecute commands.)

Is that possible ?

Thanks a lot,
Andreas

New Post: Linking Ribbon Control with Custom Task Pane

tfitzhardinge — Fri, 17 May 2013 09:28:15 GMT

Hi

I am trying to link the control of a checkbox in the ribbon to toggle the custom task pane visibility status. I believe I am almost there however missing a step or 2.

Assistance would be greatly appreciated thanks

Private taskPane As Office._CustomTaskPane
Private ctpFactory As Office.ICTPFactory

Private Const taskPane_PROGID As String = "Advance Tools with Custom Task Pane"

Shared _application As Word.Application

Shared myuserControl As UserControl1

Public Sub CTPFactoryAvailable(ByVal CTPFactoryInst As Object) Implements NetOffice.OfficeApi.ICustomTaskPaneConsumer.CTPFactoryAvailable

    ctpFactory = CTPFactoryInst

End Sub

Public Sub CheckBox1_Pressed(ByVal control As Office.IRibbonControl, ByVal CheckBox1State As Boolean)

    If CheckBox1State Then

        taskPane = ctpFactory.CreateCTP(GetType(Addin).Assembly.GetName().Name + ".UserControl1", "Picture Table Editor", Type.Missing)
        taskPane.DockPosition = MsoCTPDockPosition.msoCTPDockPositionFloating
        taskPane.Width = 300
        taskPane.Height = 420
        taskPane.Visible = True
        taskPane.DockPosition = MsoCTPDockPosition.msoCTPDockPositionLeft
        taskPane.Width = 300
        myuserControl = taskPane.ContentControl

    Else

        taskPane.Visible = False

    End If

End Sub

Closed Issue: System.AccessViolationException when writing Excel Cells [15922]

SebastianDotNet — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:51:03 GMT

Hi,

the following piece of code throws an System.AccessViolationException

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using Excel = NetOffice.ExcelApi;
using System.Diagnostics;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
// Initialize Api COMObject Support
LateBindingApi.Core.Factory.Initialize();

Excel.Application excelApplication = new Excel.Application();
Excel.Workbook workbook = excelApplication.Workbooks.Add(); //._Open(@"D:\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\QIMSIECAInterface\QIMSIECAInterface\Templates\General.xls");

excelApplication.Visible = true;

Excel.Worksheet sheet = (Excel.Worksheet)workbook.Worksheets[1];

for (int i = 12; i < 100; i++)
{
Excel.Range r = sheet.Cells[i, 1];
Debug.WriteLine(i);
i++;
}

excelApplication.Quit();
excelApplication.Dispose();
}
}
}

Exception details are the following:
System.AccessViolationException was unhandled
Message="Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt."
Source="mscorlib"
StackTrace:
at System.AppDomain._nExecuteAssembly(Assembly assembly, String[] args)
at System.AppDomain.ExecuteAssembly(String assemblyFile, Evidence assemblySecurity, String[] args)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.HostingProcess.HostProc.RunUsersAssembly()
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(Object state)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()
InnerException:

Hope you can help.

Thanks in advance.

Closed Issue: Error when opening Word samples in Word 2007 [16026]

chr_jensen — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:51:02 GMT

When I run the word C# samples I get an error dialog when opening the resulting doc afterwords.
The dialog says:
Title: C# WordRibbonAddin
Text: An error occured in OnAction.
Error accessing resource Stream

Closed Issue: wrap all exceptions from office COM Server in a COMException [16220]

SebastianDotNet — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:51:02 GMT

Interop Assemblies wrap all exceptions from the COM Server in a COMException.
NetOffice doesnt do that and existing code there using interop assemblies are not portable without changes maybe.
task: wrap all exceptions in a COMException.

Closed Issue: Exception while add Event Trigger in actual Office Versions [16314]

SebastianDotNet — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:51:02 GMT

a major bug is reported by Boris Hurinek.
NetOffice creates the eventbridge for an object always with the lowest available EventInterface.
as outcome you got an exception while add an event trigger or your specific event was not fired in actual office versions.
The problem is located in SinkHelper.cs in LateBindingApi.Core.dll
next release with fixed issue comes in 2-3 days.
the error is resolved in latest source code: NetOffice\Source\Net v2.0 v3.0 v3.5 as hotfix

Closed Issue: Shape.Line and Shape.Fill throw exceptions in NetOffice [16324]

SebastianDotNet — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:51:02 GMT

After adding a line to the worksheet with the Worksheet.Shapes.AddLine method, the .Line property of the returned Excel.Shape cannot be accessed. A LateBindingApi.Core.LateBindingApiException is thrown with the message that the LineFormat class is not found in LateBindingApi. When using the interop directly (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel instead of using NetOffice), we are able to access the .Line property of the returned Shape object.

using Excel = NetOffice.ExcelApi;

LateBindingApi.Core.Factory.Initialize();
Excel.Application XL = new Excel.Application(null, ExcelDnaUtil.Application); // We're using ExcelDna here

Excel.Worksheet ws = (Excel.Worksheet)XL.ActiveSheet;
Excel.Shape arrow = ws.Shapes.AddLine(288.0F, 218.5F, 592.0F, 218.5F); // Randomly add a line
Excel.LineFormat lf = arrow.Line; // Throws exception

// arrow.Line.DashStyle = (MsoLineDashStyle)2; // This throws an exception as we cannot access the .Line object

Exception:
System.Exception {LateBindingApi.Core.LateBindingApiException}
{"LineFormat class not found in LateBindingApi."}

We can get around this by accessing the ComObject directly:

dynamic proxy = arrow.UnderlyingObject;
proxy.Line.DashStyle = 2;

Also, when trying to access the Shape.Fill property, it is always set to null in NetOffice:

using Excel = NetOffice.ExcelApi;

LateBindingApi.Core.Factory.Initialize();
Excel.Application XL = new Excel.Application(null, ExcelDnaUtil.Application); // We're using ExcelDna here

dynamic comment = XL.ActiveSheet.Comments[1]; // Get the first comment on the current worksheet
try
{
comment.Shape.Fill.ForeColor.RGB = 255; // This throws an error as .Fill is null in NetOffice proxy object
}
catch
{
dynamic comment_interop = comment.UnderlyingObject; // We must set it directly thru the underlying proxy object
comment_interop.Shape.Fill.ForeColor.RGB = 255; // This works
}

Exception Thrown:
System.Exception {Microsoft.CSharp.RuntimeBinder.RuntimeBinderException}
{"Cannot perform runtime binding on a null reference"}

Closed Issue: Some lists are not Enumerable in Outlook [16739]

SebastianDotNet — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:51:01 GMT

Please implement IEnumerable on the various lists across the solution. Otherwise, there are a lot of foreach-statements in applications that would need to be rewritten to for-loops for people migrating to NetOffice.

Examples from my compile output:
foreach statement cannot operate on variables of type 'NetOffice.OutlookApi._Items' because 'NetOffice.OutlookApi._Items' does not contain a public definition for 'GetEnumerator'
foreach statement cannot operate on variables of type 'NetOffice.OutlookApi.Stores' because 'NetOffice.OutlookApi.Stores' does not contain a public definition for 'GetEnumerator'
foreach statement cannot operate on variables of type 'NetOffice.OutlookApi._Folders' because 'NetOffice.OutlookApi._Folders' does not contain a public definition for 'GetEnumerator'

As an example, see attached file, or https://gist.github.com/1284715#file__items_enumerator.cs , where I have implemented an Enumerator for _Items.cs in v1.1 of NetOffice.

If you want to, I could contribute by creating a patch for the three lists mentioned. But you probably have a better overview of how many places this should be implemented. And maybe if there is a generic solution so we don't need so much copy-pasting.

Closed Issue: Missing indexer for some properties [16898]

SebastianDotNet — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:51:01 GMT

Some properties are missing the indexer to access an item. Especially BuiltInDocumentProperties and CustomDocumentProperties on Word.Document should have it.
For BuiltInDocumentProperties it should be possible to access an item using the WdBuiltInProperty enum (BuiltInDocumentProperties[WdBuiltInProperty.wdPropertyAuthor])

Closed Issue: Exception while using custom Enumerators [16994]

SebastianDotNet — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:51:01 GMT

an issue is reported by ngx.

http://netoffice.codeplex.com/discussions/281614

custom enumerators use a wrong array range in NetOffice, as outcome an exception was thrown.
task: change used array range and make sure it works good.

Closed Issue: Word Window.GetPoint does not return values [17015]

Piet123 — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:51:00 GMT

The GetPoint function of a Word application Window object, does not return any values in NetOffice.
GetPoint(int,int,int,int,object)

It should work like the interop method:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.office.interop.word.window.getpoint(v=office.14).aspx

GetPoint(out int,out int,out int,out int,object)

Closed Issue: Attach to instance of MSOffice App [17043]

SebastianDotNet — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:51:00 GMT

Now we cant attach COMObject to a running instance of any COM, that registered in ROT. All (?) MS Office App register self instances in ROT, so .....

NetOffice must support attaching to exists instance.

Note: see examlple from MS: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/238975/en-us

Closed Issue: wrong entity type: IRibbonUI, ICustomTaskPaneConsumer [17050]

SebastianDotNet — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:51:00 GMT

I do mistake in Release 1.3.1

the following interfaces are generated as classes and have to generate as interface of course.

IRibbonUI
IRibbonControl
IRibbonExtensibility
ICustomTaskPaneConsumer

Closed Issue: create vba-style overloads for properties with parameters [17224]

SebastianDotNet — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:51:00 GMT

properties with parameters are mapped in NetOffice and Interop assemblies as method with "get_" or/and "set_" prefix. this is very untypical for VBA developers.
task: create a mapped method without "get_" or/and "set_" for the possible scenarios.

the possible scenario is: the property has min. 1 non optional parameter and the property name is not the same as the including type.

Closed Issue: InvalidCastException in Word Dialog.Show [17551]

SebastianDotNet — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:50:59 GMT

I get an InvalidCastException when using the Dialog.Show method in a Word add-in.
It may be caused by a cast of 'object' to 'int' the NetOffice code , while the return object is in fact 'Int16'