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May 11, 2007

Office Add-In Development “Gotcha”

Because of the nature of how Office add-ins are loaded, it’s an easy enough mistake to try to name your configuration file as: <library-name-with-extension>.config or in my case, <executable-name-with-extension>.config. In fact, the configuration file actually needs to be named WINWORD.exe.config...

.Net

April 19, 2007

Enterprise Library 3.0 Released

I just noticed moments ago that the final release of Enterprise Library 3.0 released recently. Unfortunately, after a quick glance at the documentation, it seems like ObjectBuilder has been left off the table (link goes to online documentation for ObjectBuilder,...

.Net / Rants

March 25, 2007

Automatic Properties in C# 3.0…Why?

One of the new features in C# 3.0 makes absolutely no sense to me: automatic properties. I have two issues with this approach. First, Wouldn’t it make more sense to just have VS ask: “Do you want to generate a...

.Net / Dev / DevTools

March 22, 2007

NHibernate Or Bust!

So my interest in NHibernate is picking back up again. The 1.2 beta release that’s circulating now (the candidate release has been out since February of this year) addresses various issues with NHibernate in my previous time with it. Specifically,...

Combating Namespace Bloat With .Net XML Serialization

.Net / DevTools

March 20, 2007

Combating Namespace Bloat With .Net XML Serialization

Anyone who has used the .Net XmlSerializers have surely encountered the dreaded namespace bloat which makes the serialized objects grow to ridiculous sizes. There’s a nice little article over at TopXML on how to deal with this bloat. If you’re...

.Net / WF

February 28, 2007

WF Passivation Services Issues

If you’re expecting the WF (Windows Workflow) passivation services to work out of the box, well, you’re half right. From one of my workflows, I’ve been able to trap that an error was being thrown at some point during execution, but...

.Net

February 19, 2007

Setting Links in Word Programmatically

Since I didn’t find anything on this topic via Google… Just a quick “how to” on setting links in Microsoft Word programmatically (in this case, C#):

<FONT face=Courier><FONT color=#0000ff>public void </FONT><FONT color=#000000>CheckRuntime() {</FONT>
    <FONT color=#0000ff>object </FONT><FONT color=#000000>reference = </FONT><FONT color=#0000ff>null</FONT><FONT color=#000000>;</FONT>

    <FONT color=#0000ff>try </FONT><FONT color=#000000>{</FONT>
        <FONT color=#000000>reference = </FONT><FONT color=#808000>Marshal</FONT><FONT color=#000000>.GetActiveObject(</FONT><FONT color=#ff00ff>"Word.Application"</FONT><FONT color=#000000>);</FONT>
    <FONT color=#000000>}</FONT>
    <FONT color=#0000ff>catch </FONT><FONT color=#000000>(</FONT><FONT color=#808000>COMException</FONT><FONT color=#000000>) {</FONT>
        <FONT color=#008080>System</FONT><FONT color=#000000>.</FONT><FONT color=#808000>Console</FONT><FONT color=#000000>.Out.WriteLine(</FONT><FONT color=#ff00ff>"No instances found..."</FONT><FONT color=#000000>);</FONT>
    <FONT color=#000000>}</FONT>

    <FONT color=#0000ff>if </FONT><FONT color=#000000>(reference != </FONT><FONT color=#0000ff>null</FONT><FONT color=#000000>) {</FONT>
        <FONT color=#0000ff>try </FONT><FONT color=#000000>{</FONT>
            <FONT color=#008080>System</FONT><FONT color=#000000>.</FONT><FONT color=#808000>Console</FONT><FONT color=#000000>.Out.WriteLine(</FONT><FONT color=#ff00ff>"Found running instance!"</FONT><FONT color=#000000>);</FONT>

            <FONT color=#000000>ApplicationClass wordRuntime = (ApplicationClass)reference;</FONT>

            <FONT color=#008080>System</FONT><FONT color=#000000>.</FONT><FONT color=#008080>Text</FONT><FONT color=#000000>.</FONT><FONT color=#808000>StringBuilder </FONT><FONT color=#000000>buffer = </FONT><FONT color=#0000ff>new </FONT><FONT color=#808000>StringBuilder</FONT><FONT color=#000000>();</FONT>
            <FONT color=#0000ff>foreach </FONT><FONT color=#000000>(Document document </FONT><FONT color=#0000ff>in </FONT><FONT color=#000000>wordRuntime.Documents) {</FONT>
                <FONT color=#000000>buffer.AppendFormat(</FONT><FONT color=#ff00ff>"{0}|"</FONT><FONT color=#000000>, document.Name);</FONT>

                <FONT color=#0000ff>if </FONT><FONT color=#000000>(wordRuntime.Selection != </FONT><FONT color=#0000ff>null</FONT><FONT color=#000000>) {</FONT>
                    <FONT color=#008080>System</FONT><FONT color=#000000>.</FONT><FONT color=#808000>Console</FONT><FONT color=#000000>.Out.WriteLine(</FONT><FONT color=#ff00ff>"Selected text: \"{0}\""</FONT><FONT color=#000000>,</FONT>
                        <FONT color=#000000>wordRuntime.Selection.</FONT><FONT color=#008080>Text</FONT><FONT color=#000000>);</FONT>

                    <FONT color=#0000ff>object </FONT><FONT color=#000000>optional = </FONT><FONT color=#808000>Missing</FONT><FONT color=#000000>.Value;</FONT>
                    <FONT color=#0000ff>object </FONT><FONT color=#000000>url = </FONT><FONT color=#ff00ff>"http://www.google.com/"</FONT><FONT color=#000000>;</FONT>

                    <FONT color=#0000ff>if</FONT><FONT color=#000000>(wordRuntime.Selection.Hyperlinks.Count == </FONT><FONT color=#800080>0</FONT><FONT color=#000000>) {</FONT>
                        <FONT color=#000000>wordRuntime.Selection.Hyperlinks._Add(</FONT>
                            <FONT color=#000000>wordRuntime.Selection.Range,</FONT>
                            <FONT color=#0000ff>ref </FONT><FONT color=#000000>url,</FONT>
                            <FONT color=#0000ff>ref </FONT><FONT color=#000000>optional</FONT>
                        <FONT color=#000000>);</FONT>
                    <FONT color=#000000>}</FONT>
                <FONT color=#000000>}</FONT>
            <FONT color=#000000>}</FONT>

            <FONT color=#008080>System</FONT><FONT color=#000000>.</FONT><FONT color=#808000>Console</FONT><FONT color=#000000>.Out.WriteLine(</FONT>
                <FONT color=#0000ff>string</FONT><FONT color=#000000>.Format(</FONT><FONT color=#ff00ff>"Currently open documents are: {0}"</FONT><FONT color=#000000>,</FONT>
                <FONT color=#000000>buffer.ToString().Trim(</FONT><FONT color=#ff00ff>'|'</FONT><FONT color=#000000>))</FONT>
            <FONT color=#000000>);</FONT>
        <FONT color=#000000>}</FONT>
        <FONT color=#0000ff>finally </FONT><FONT color=#000000>{</FONT>
            <FONT color=#808000>Marshal</FONT><FONT color=#000000>.ReleaseComObject(reference);</FONT>
        <FONT color=#000000>}</FONT>
    <FONT color=#000000>}</FONT>
<FONT color=#000000>}</FONT>
</FONT>

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public void CheckRuntime() {

object reference = null;

try {

reference = Marshal.GetActiveObject("Word.Application");

}

catch (COMException) {

System.Console.Out.WriteLine("No instances found...");

}

if (reference != null) {

try {

System.Console.Out.WriteLine("Found running instance!");

ApplicationClass wordRuntime = (ApplicationClass)reference;

System.Text.StringBuilder buffer = new StringBuilder();

foreach (Document document in wordRuntime.Documents) {

buffer.AppendFormat("{0}|", document.Name);

if (wordRuntime.Selection != null) {

System.Console.Out.WriteLine("Selected text: \"{0}\"",

wordRuntime.Selection.Text);

object optional = Missing.Value;

object url = "http://www.google.com/";

if(wordRuntime.Selection.Hyperlinks.Count == 0) {

wordRuntime.Selection.Hyperlinks._Add(

wordRuntime.Selection.Range,

ref url,

ref optional

);

}

System.Console.Out.WriteLine(

string.Format("Currently open documents are: {0}",

buffer.ToString().Trim('|'))

);

}

finally {

Marshal.ReleaseComObject(reference);

}

The code is wrapped in a function call I’m using for testing. The key...

.Net / Dev / DevTools

February 8, 2007

Revisiting Spring.Net

Spring.Net is an application framework which has its roots in the Spring Framework for Java. Now first of all, I know many developers have an averse reaction to the use of the phrase “application framework” and immediately reject such things...

.Net / Rants

February 2, 2007

Most Annoying Error Ever.

So I’ve been working on this Windows Forms app for the past month and recently, it started developing this very odd error that occurs only after a successful build, just as I fire up the window. Behold: Argh! What’s...

.Net / Dev / WF

February 1, 2007

My Thoughts on WF

As I commented in a post on Paul Andrew’s blog regarding what WF is and what it is not: As I’ve been working with WF these last few weeks, I’ve come to form another view of WF and what it...

Category: .Net

Office Add-In Development “Gotcha”

Enterprise Library 3.0 Released

Automatic Properties in C# 3.0…Why?

NHibernate Or Bust!

Combating Namespace Bloat With .Net XML Serialization

WF Passivation Services Issues

Setting Links in Word Programmatically

Revisiting Spring.Net

Most Annoying Error Ever.

My Thoughts on WF

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