do you know the filename that is open in the taskbar?? then it should be easy to fetch that filename and copy it right???
refer the below links for some more idea. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/897796/how-do-i-open-an-already-opened-file-with-a-net-streamreader http://stackoverflow.com/questions/685135/open-file-in-exclusive-mode-in-c On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:52 PM, musa.biralo <[email protected]> wrote: > > Nice idea, Vivek, > > But the question is how to make a copy of it without getting the main > window or main word doc? > > Thanks > Musa. > > On Jul 6, 11:52 am, Vivek SHANTHARAM <[email protected]> wrote: > > 1) make a copy of the file in some other temporary location. > > 2) Do the changes you want to make and > > 3) then replace it with the original file that is open. > > > > Classes like File, FileSystem contains some methods like open, openread, > > openwrite, copy etc, which should help you. Hope this works. > > > > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 7:21 PM, musa.biralo <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Greetings. > > > > > First of all I am not looking for the entire code, I need your help to > > > direct me or give some suggestions. > > > > > From VB.NET <http://vb.net/> <http://vb.net/>, will I be able to write > a string to a word > > > document which > > > is already open (I can see the word doc in taskbar)? I was able to get > > > the file name of the word doc that's in taskbar but failed to activate > > > it or write on it. > > > > > So, from VB.NET <http://vb.net/> <http://vb.net/>, I need to activate > or get the word doc > > > which is up > > > and running with a file name of "Musa.doc" and write some text to the > > > word doc... > > > > > Any suggestion will be very helpful. > > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > Musa.Biralo > > > > >
