Hi,

I am currently working with VSTO for Word and SharePoint 2007.

I have extended the Actions pane to provide me with functionality to browse a SharePoint document library.

Once the user selects the document from the Actions Pane (displayed in a List Box), I want to insert the contents of that document in the current document at the current cursor position.

So far I have been able to read the document from Sharepoint document library in a Stream object.

Where I am struggling is in inserting the contents of the stream object in the current document.

Can anyone lead me in the right direction as to how to insert contents of a document to the current document?

I have seen examples of inserting plain text in the document, but that does not help me as I have a byte[]/stream object to work with.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Thanks

-Pritam Dahake

Hi Pritam

The Word object model doesn't support "streaming" content in or out. Assuming the document on Sharepoint has been saved in the native Word 2007 XML file format you should be able to use the InsertXML method to put the information into the open Word document.

Cindy,

Thanks a lot for your response. The document is indeed saved on the SharePoint site as docx.

My problem is that being a newbie to the XML word format, I need some pointers as to how I can read the text from the document using XML.

I know I need to use the System.IO.Package class for doing it...but beyond that I am still trying to figure out what to do.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Thanks

-Pritam

If you're automating Word, then use the XML property of the RANGE object.

If you're picking up the document "as is" (without automation) then you need to read the documentation on the MSDN site about the new Open Office file formats. I suggest starting with Brian Jones' blog.

http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2006/09/29/777423.aspx