RE: How to write custom Sharepoint.OpenDocuments control?

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From: Wei-Dong XU [MSFT] (v-wdxu_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/11/05 

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 03:19:43 GMT

Hi,

So far as I know, there is no one public article from Microsoft introducing
the detail of developing one ActiveX OpenDocuments control. Furthermore, I
haven't found one article introducing this either.

>From my view, this situation (no any article regarding this development)
should be caused by the client application design. Different client
application has different internal implementation on opening the doc in the
sharepoint.

Some can open the doc in Sharepoint doclib directly; for example Word/Excel
2003 etc has the built-in feature "shared workspace", we can use the VBA
code below or identical automation code in C#/VB.net/J#/VB/C++ to open the
doc in Word 2003.
'---vba code ----
Application.Documents.Open "http://
name>/Shared%20Documents/<docname>.doc"
'---end---

Perhaps some others should firstly download the doc and then open it. Some
use Frontpage RPC to open the doc, some use the web service. So one article
on this development may need to cover too much or only focus on one client
application.

For your scenario, I'd suggest you can develop one new activex at client
side, taking advantage of your client app to open the doc.
And then insert one new menu item at the document library for opening the
file. This way, there is no need for you to affect the default design of
Sharepoint; it will also be easy for the development. One SDK article
introduces the method on inserting one new menu item.
"Customizing the Shortcut Menu for List Items"
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/spptsdk/html/tsptAddingContextMenu_S
V01068564.asp

The latest SPS SDK is avaiable at 2/3/2005 from this link:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=aa3e7fe5-daee-4d10-
980f-789b827967b0&DisplayLang=en

Please feel free to let me know if you have any question.

Best Regards,
Wei-Dong XU
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