How to avoid opening the worddocument which is already open./Using C# .net

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Hi Friends In my scenario am opening the WordDocument programaticallysuppose if i'am opening the same worddocument i should prompt the message that the document is already opened .. Process [] pro = Process . GetProcessesByName ( WINWORD ); if ( pro . Length > 0 ) { foreach ( Process p in pro ) { p . kill (); } } i'am using the above code to find the process and killing already opened documents the problem is its killing the wordexe so that all the other opened documents also destroyed.. so how to find the name of the document and close particular documents only.. i used P.MainWindowTitle to get the opened document name but its not showing all the opened documents rather showing the first opened document name. Please suggest me the solution .. thanks in advance Dev..

Karthikeyan Anbarasan · Answer

Check this link... It might be useful... Its in VB.Net you can convert to C# as required.. http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=549506

Sam Hobbs · Answer

How did you open the Word document? If you did not open it using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word because you thought it would be easier not to then this is why it would be easier to use the interop way. Opening the documen using interop is easy; if there is not an article in this web site then please tell me and I will show you how and then make it an article. If there is any reason you can't use the instance of the document that resulted from opening it using interop then you can get the document from the ROT. Do you need to do that? It is easy; you can get it in just one line of code but you will probably use two to put the filename in a separate line. Then another line to close the document. So which of the two do you want to do?

Vulpes · Answer

The for loop will only run 'n' times if there are 'n' instances of MS Word open simultaneously. Otherwise there's only one process and (possibly) multiple top-level document windows open but the Process class is only able to get the window handle of the one which currently has the focus. Also if you try to kill the process it closes all the document windows not just the one you want to close. However when you use EnumWindows the system iterates through all top-level windows and you can then select the one you want and close it.

Suthish Nair · Answer

deva you are wrong. the for loop itself running n times (winword.exe) from Process[] array. check the count.

Vulpes · Answer

The trouble with using the Process class with MS Word is that (as you've already discovered) several document windows can be open at once under a single process and (I think) the window which currently has the focus is regarded as the main window. However if you don't want to resort to Word interop then you can get the names of all the open documents using the API function EnumWindows and then close a particular one by sending it the WM_Close message. Here's some code: using System; using System.Runtime.InteropServices; using System.Text; delegate bool CallBackPtr(IntPtr hWnd int lParam); class EnumReport { const uint WM_Close = 0x10; static CallBackPtr callBackPtr; [DllImport(user32.dll)] private static extern int EnumWindows(CallBackPtr callPtr int lParam); [DllImport(user32.dll)] static extern int GetWindowText(IntPtr hWnd StringBuilder lpString int nMaxCount); [DllImport(user32.dll CharSet = CharSet.Auto)] static extern IntPtr SendMessage(IntPtr hWnd uint Msg IntPtr wParam IntPtr lParam); static bool Report(IntPtr hWnd int lParam) { StringBuilder lpString = new StringBuilder(256); GetWindowText(hWnd lpString 256); string title = lpString.ToString().Trim(); int index = title.IndexOf(- Microsoft Word); // look for MS Word windows if(index > -1) { title = title.Substring(0 index); Console.WriteLine(Window handle is : {0} hWnd); Console.WriteLine(Document title is : {0}
 title); } if (title.StartsWith(USING THE COMPLEX TYPE)) // close a particular window { SendMessage(hWnd WM_Close IntPtr.Zero IntPtr.Zero); } return true; } static void Main() { Console.Clear(); callBackPtr = new CallBackPtr(EnumReport.Report); EnumWindows(callBackPtr 0); Console.ReadKey(); } }