While working with VSTO AddIn, there was a need to
get the source path of the document while it is being opened from a SharePoint
document library.
After little efforts, managed
to find the property like
Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.ActiveDocument.Path;
But this works only when you open an existing
document from the library and not when you try to create new document.
Was wondering for some time that why is this behavior
shown by Word APIs?? But MS forums helped a lot.
There are two ways to get the document path /
source URL when you open the new document from document library.
1. Get the template of the document and then
retrieve source / path of the template. Generally all template path returns something
like – http://siteurl/doclibname/forms/templatename
Template
template = Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.ActiveDocument.get_AttachedTemplate()
as Template;
string
path = template.Path;
2. Environment.CommandLine returns the string using
which you can get the source of the document. Some formatting is needed which
can be done like this
public string GetDocLibPath()
{
string path =
string.Empty;
string[]
tempArray = Environment.CommandLine.Split(new char[] { '"' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
if
(tempArray.Length >= 3)
{
string[]
temp2Array = tempArray[2].Split(new char[] { '=' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
if
(temp2Array.Length == 3)
{
path = temp2Array[2];
}
}
return path;
}
References: MSDN
Forums | MSDN
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