Using the suggestion from here, I managed to embed Excel 2007 in my WPF WebBrowser control. However, the ribbon doesn't show up. I tried various techniques and nothing makes it work.
I tried this:
_application.ExecuteExcel4Macro("SHOW.TOOLBAR(\"Ribbon\",True)");
I also tried to run this from a macro after the Excel workbook is constructed,
Sub hide_ribbon()
Application.ExecuteExcel4Macro ("Show.Toolbar(""Ribbon"", False)")
End Sub
Sub show_ribbon()
Application.ExecuteExcel4Macro ("Show.Toolbar(""Ribbon"", True)")
End Sub
but it doesn't work either, although the same macro works fine in native Excel.
Also tried this:
CommandBar cb = _workbook.CommandBars["Standard"];
cb.Visible = true;
cb.Enabled = true;
cb.Position = MsoBarPosition.msoBarTop;
Or tried changing "Standard" to "Ribbon", but nothing works.
Ctrl+F1 doesn't work either.
Anybody got a clue?
It took me over 3 weeks of digging to work this out - even then I still need to test that it all works as expected.
As you already know the ribbon is automatically hidden when embedding Excel and that you need to 'toggle' it back on again by sending an OLE command.
I assume that you are uisng the SHDocVw library wrapped in with an ActiveX container, in the manner described in the knowledge base article is article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304662 and that you have set up the appropriate registry entries to get the browser to display Excel docs (I am sure that you must have done if all you are missing is the Ribbon).
I am using C#, so you may have to mess about a bit in VBA.
The article entitled "WebOCHostVB.exe Hosts the WebBrowser Control in Visual Basic .NET" in the MS support knowledge base looks promising however, the URL is "support.microsoft.com/kb/311303"
Once the document is opened, call ExecWB on the browser as follows :
object omissing = System.Reflection.Missing.Value ;
this.axExcelWebBrowser1.ExecWB(SHDocVw.OLECMDID.OLECMDID_HIDETOOLBARS,
SHDocVw.OLECMDEXECOPT.OLECMDEXECOPT_DONTPROMPTUSER,
ref omissing, ref omissing);
This should toggle the Ribbon state - as it is off when we start, a single call should make it display. Doing this again should hide it - though I have not tried.
The constants are in the shdocvw.dll that you must reference from your project. Even though these are integer enumerations, I could not redefine them locally and get things to work.
You can find other OLE commands, that might also be useful for your application, here :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms691264%28v=VS.85%29.aspx
I don't know why this has to be so difficult, or why the behaviour of Excel is not consistent with that of Word.
Hope this helps.
Related
In short:
I'm new to VisualStudio Extensibility and my goal is to create an extension with a ToolWindow (which already works) showing different views for each context of a VisualStudio solution, i. e. a view for the solution, a view for a project etc.. The window should be opened by clicking on a context menu entry in the context menus of the Solution Explorer, Class View, Object Browser and (ideally) any other window showing contents like projects, namespaces, classes etc..
After searching I found a lot of information, but for some points I couldn't find very helpful information. How do I ...
... create a context menu item for the VisualStudio views?
... get the currently open solution as an instance in code?
... get the projects of the solution and their contens as instances in code?
... add/remove items to/from a solution/project/class/... in code?
... react to selection changes in the Solution Explorer?
What I've done, so far:
I read the docs for Starting to Develop Visual Studio Extensions and downloaded the VSSDK-Extensibility-Samples. Especially the WPF_Toolwindow example was interesting for my purposes, so I built and ran it, which was successful, so far. Another interesting sample would have been the WPFDesigner_XML, but it always throws a NullReferenceException, so I decided to stick with the former ToolWindow, which is completely fine, for now.
Furtermore, I tried to understand the example by having a close look at each file in the project, running it in the debugger and analyzing what happened. I'm confident I understood it, but am also open for corrections of my possibly misguided thoughts following.
Now, I have created a new project, based on the WPF_Toolwindow sample, renamed and adapted to my needs (basically, I created new GUIDs, renamed the namespaces and removed things I won't use). This extension still works in the debugger. I even uninstalled everything from the experimental instance and debugged the extension from scratch.
What I try to achieve:
Have the ToolWindow load a specific view/viewmodel, when the selection changes in the Solution Explorer (or any other VisualStudio view). Alternatively, there should be a context menu item for every node's context menu in the Solution Explorer tree (or any other VisualStudio view).
Get the currently open solution, the containing projects and basically everything from the Solution Explorer's content as instances processable in my viewmodel. I need to properly add/remove
classes/structs/enums to/from
a folder in a project
a namespace
properties/fields to/from a class/struct
Generate code based on information of the solution and add the file properly to a project.
Does anyone know of examples for something like this or can anyone give me some hints, where I can find further information? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
(1) The items already have a context menu and I want to add a new command to this menu.
if you want to add a sub menu to the context menu, the following link provide a complete sample
https://github.com/visualstudioextensibility/VSX-Samples/tree/master/CommandSubmenu
(3) Yes, basically adding a file to a project without manually manipulating the project file would be nice.
You can add the file to project via Project.ProjectItems.AddFromFile, and the following provide a sample for your reference.
https://www.mztools.com/Articles/2014/MZ2014009.aspx
Update:
I select a project and a similar event is fired. Are there such events I can subscribe to?
You could use IVsMonitorSelection to implement. here is the code which retrieve related project path for your reference.
IntPtr hierarchyPointer, selectionContainerPointer;
Object selectedObject = null;
IVsMultiItemSelect multiItemSelect;
uint projectItemId;
IVsMonitorSelection monitorSelection =
(IVsMonitorSelection)Package.GetGlobalService(
typeof(SVsShellMonitorSelection));
monitorSelection.GetCurrentSelection(out hierarchyPointer,
out projectItemId,
out multiItemSelect,
out selectionContainerPointer);
IVsHierarchy selectedHierarchy = Marshal.GetTypedObjectForIUnknown(
hierarchyPointer,
typeof(IVsHierarchy)) as IVsHierarchy;
if (selectedHierarchy != null)
{
ErrorHandler.ThrowOnFailure(selectedHierarchy.GetProperty(
projectItemId,
(int)__VSHPROPID.VSHPROPID_ExtObject,
out selectedObject));
}
Project selectedProject = selectedObject as Project;
string projectPath = selectedProject.FullName;
For more information about the usage, please refer to:
https://www.mztools.com/articles/2007/mz2007024.aspx
I am migrating Spreadsheet gear of my application from 6.0.3.190 to
7.4.1.104.I am getting my issues with Color property.Can any one help me in this.Now I am using using Color = System.Drawing.Color; and also ToSGColor().This became very hectic to do in all places where ever we use color.I expect we should have some shortcut to do this.Can any one suggest me How can i get all functionalities with few changes only.I am also getting exceptions to c onvert IColorFormat.LineColor to system.drawing.Color.
Note the "Breaking Changes" page in the SpreadsheetGear 2012 documentation, which lists this particular change:
In order to support WPF and Silverlight, the core API has been
separated from the GDI+ and Windows Forms APIs and therefore uses the
new SpreadsheetGear.Color type rather than
SpreadsheetGear.Drawing.Color. SpreadsheetGear.Drawing.Color has been
moved to SpreadsheetGear2012.Drawing.dll. See
SpreadsheetGear.Drawing.Color for an example which uses the implicit
and static converters to convert between SpreadsheetGear.Color,
SpreadsheetGear.Drawing.Color and System.Drawing.Color.
SpreadsheetGear.Colors and SpreadsheetGear.SystemColors provide
helpful predefined colors to replace the use of predefined colors in
System.Drawing.Color.
So you'll need to ensure than any place where you were previously using System.Drawing colors now use SpreadsheetGear.Drawing colors, including API like IColorFormat.LineColor.
There aren't really any "migration" tools to automatically convert such instances to the new API. So you'll need to resolve these errors for each code file. Doing a Find/Replace keyword search for "System.Drawing" and "SpreadsheetGear.Drawing" could possibly speed up the process, though this would depend on what using statements you have added to each code file.
I saw this code ealier about drag and dropping attachment files (http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/28209/Outlook-Drag-and-Drop-in-C) from Outlook into Windows Form and it works fine in windows Forms, but I can't seem to make it work with WPF.
I tried to simply change System.windows.form.IDataObject to System.Windows.IDataObject but it doesn't work (as I should have guessed).
I also simply tried to get the content of the e.Data FileContents but always get errors (which seems to be the case to everyone when I check on the web).
Did anyone ever did drag and dropping attachment from Outlook to WPF ? I am at a complete loss.
Edit : I am not trying to get file from a Windows Explorer windows ( I do but I know how to). It's really the whole getting attachment from Outlook directly that doesn't work . I am fully aware too that I could simple take the file from outlook into a temp folder and then drop it into my program, but I would like to avoid this unncessary step if possible.
so in the end I was able to find out a link where someone did exactly that :
https://gist.github.com/MattyBoy4444/521547
For those who wonders. Here is what I did exactly.
Create a new project in C# (my code is in VB) and add the code to it
Reference the new project in my main project to be able to use it
In my drop Event, check whether or not I had the "FileGroupDescriptorW" object in the drop data and called the method if I do to retrieve the files.
Here is the complete code
If obj.GetDataPresent("FileGroupDescriptorW") Then 'Outlook
Dim oOutLookObj As New Helpers.OutlookDataObject(e.Data)
Dim StrFiles() As String = oOutLookObj.GetData("FileGroupDescriptorW")
Dim contentStream() As System.IO.MemoryStream = oOutLookObj.GetData("FileContents")
' Do intended work...
End if
The names of the files are in StrFiles and the content are found in the streams. Both have the same array size and are order correctly.
I am trying to figure out how to make a hyperlink in a Livecycle Form which points to a URL which will change on different days that the form is rendered. For example on one day I might want the hyperlink to point to:
mywebsite/mypage?option=XXX
and on another day I want it to point to:
mywebsite/mypage?option=YYY
The XXX and YYY can be passed into the form's data pretty easily as XML, but I just don't know how to make it so that the hyperlink is changed to correspond to this.
Any suggestions?
This can be accomplished with JavaScript in LiveCycle Designer. The following script, placed on the Form's docReady event will let you dynamically change the URL of a text object.
form1::docReady - (JavaScript, client)
// If this code is running on the server, you don't want it to run any code
// that might force a relayout, or you could get stuck in an infinite loop
if (xfa.host.name != "XFAPresentationAgent") {
// You would load the URL that you want into this variable, based on
// whatever XML data is being passed into your form
var sURL = "www.stackoverflow.com"; // mywebsite/mypage?option=xxx
// URLs are encoded in XHTML. In order to change the URL, you need
// to create the right XHTML string and push it into the Text object's
// <value> node. This is a super simple XHTML shell for this purpose.
// You could add all sorts of markup to make your hyperlink look pretty
var sRichText = "<body><p>Foo</p></body>";
// Assuming you have a text object called "Text1" on the form, this
// call will push the rich text into the node. Note that this call
// will force a re-layout of the form
this.resolveNode("Text1").value.exData.loadXML(sRichText, false, true);
}
There are a couple of caveats: URLs in Acrobat are only supported in Acrobat 9.0 and later. So if someone using an older version of Acrobat opens your form, the URLs won't work.
Also, as you can see from the "if (xfa.host.name !=...)" line, this code won't run properly if the form is being generated on the server, because forcing a re-layout of a form during docReady can cause problems on certain older versions of the LiveCycle server. If you do need to run this script on the server, you should probably pick a different event then form::docReady.
I a number of complaints from users in WorkSpace that clicking links opened them in the same tab so they lost their WorkSpace form, and there's no option to change that in Designer 11. I think the solution I came up with for that would work for you too.
I made buttons with no border and no background, and in their click event have this line (in Javascript, run at client)
app.launchURL("http:/stackoverflow.com/", true);
It would be easy to add some logic to choose the right URL based on the day and it doesn't cause any form re-rendering.
In some spots where the hyperlink is in line with other text, I leave the text of the link blue and underlined but with no hyperlink, and just place the button (no background, no border, no caption) over it. Does require positioned and not flowed subforms for that to work, so depending on your layout it could get a little clunky.
Wow, just realized I am super late to the party. Well, for anyone using ES4 facing a similar problem . . .
Ended up using a 3rd party component to manipulate the PDF's hyperlinks...wish there was a better solution as this one costs about $1000.
How to put a File path control in VBA front panel? I want the user to be able to select the browse button and select the file path rather than putting up dialog boxes all over the place. I need the user to select three or more file paths.
After re-re-reading your Q, it seams you want to steer away from dialog boxes!Oh well, I was going to say
I could post the hack about using MSDIAG on VBA, that explains
how you can patch your registry to
enable its use under VBA,
without having other MS-VB products
installed... but I rather have you
google that one... you can certainly
understand why.
But you don't want Dialog Boxes... you want controls and buttons: Use listboxes!
To populate your listbox, use the Dir command (using method additem of the listbox).
Two phases for achieving that:
first get the Directories (and prefix a "->" or whatever prior to adding it on the listbox, so that the user understands this is not a file);
then get filenames (you can filter by extension with the arguments of Dir, just as you would in DOS).
Finally, under OnClick and OnDoubleClick of the listbox, you must interpret the listbox default property (Item), check for "->" and use ChDir to change directory and repopulate, or you'll have your file selected.
The write up is sooooooo much more complicated than the code... trust me.
Do you mean VBA for Microsoft Office or just general VBA?
In Office, Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogOpen).
Otherwise, look at the Win32 API function SHBrowseForFolder (in shell32.dll). You can import it for use into VBA using the Declare Function keywords.
There is not direct VBA function for that. You can decide to combine a form (Access form, or a generic microsoft form) with 2 controls: (1) text box (2) browse button (which will finally use the fileDialog command or a windows API).
Perhaps the browse for folder API from the Microsoft MVPs site would suit:
http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0002.htm
It uses SHBrowseForFolder mentioned by fwzgekg, and does not return a file dialog, it returns a browsable list of folders.
Is this what you want?
FilePath = Application.GetOpenFilename