Reading Custom Properties of Word Document

Part III

Read the Introduction about this article Part I

Read about reading the summary properties of word document in this article Part II
In this post, we can see what is the code for the reading the custom properties of the word document.

public static void GetDocumentCustomProperties(string filename)
{
            OleDocumentPropertiesClass doc = new OleDocumentPropertiesClass();
            doc.Open(filename, true, dsoFileOpenOptions.dsoOptionOpenReadOnlyIfNoWriteAccess);
            //Reading and writing the custom properties to a file
            StreamWriter sw1= new StreamWriter(@"D:\FileRead_Custom.txt");
            CustomProperties obj_CustomProp = doc.CustomProperties;
            foreach (CustomProperty custom_prop in obj_CustomProp )
            {
                sw1.WriteLine(custom_prop.Name   "    "   custom_prop.get_Value());
            }
            sw1.Close();
            doc.Close(false);
}

Hope this helps you!

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Reading Summary Properties of Word Document

Part II

Read the Introduction about this article Part I

In this post, we can see what is the code for the reading the summary properties of the word document.

public static void GetDocumentSummaryProperties(string filename)
{
            DSOFile.OleDocumentPropertiesClass doc = new DSOFile.
            OleDocumentPropertiesClass();
            doc.Open(filename, false,

            DSOFile.dsoFileOpenOptions.dsoOptionOpenReadOnlyIfNoWriteAccess );

            //getting the properties of the document
            DSOFile.SummaryProperties summaryProp = doc.SummaryProperties;

            //reading and writng the summary properties to a file
            string author = summaryProp.Author;
            string comapanyName = summaryProp.Company;
            string managerName = summaryProp.Manager;
            StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(@"D:\FileRead.txt");
            sw.WriteLine(author);
            sw.WriteLine(comapanyName);
            sw.WriteLine(managerName);
            sw.Close();
}

That’s It. Enjoy Happy Coding!

Also, read how to Read the Custom Properties of Word Document Part III

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Reading Document Properties

Part I

We are going to discuss about a interesting topic which can be used in SharePoint and also in .Net.

It is possible to reading the summary properties and custom properties of the word document and it is also one of the requirements now a days.

This can be done through using DSO dll which can be downloaded from the below link

DSO Setup Download Link

(Important Note: This is a 32 bit dll )

What is DSO dll ?

The Dsofile.dll sample file is an in-process ActiveX component for programmers that use Microsoft Visual Basic .NET or the Microsoft .NET Framework. You can use this in your custom applications to read and to edit the OLE document properties that are associated with Microsoft Office files, such as the following: 

• Microsoft Excel workbooks

• Microsoft PowerPoint presentations

• Microsoft Word documents

• Microsoft Project projects

• Microsoft Visio drawings

• Other files that are saved in the OLE Structured Storage format

The Dsofile.dll sample file is written in Microsoft Visual C++. The Dsofile.dll sample file demonstrates how to use the OLE32 IPropertyStorage interface to access the extended properties of OLE structured storage files.

Features of this DLL

1. This dll is 32 bit and can read only Microsoft word 2003 (ie., .doc) formats only.

2. It has a OLE property reader class which can read the properties of the word document.

3. Using this dll, we can read both the Summary properties and also the Custom properties we create for the documents.

4. Also with this dll, we can set the custom properties programmatically.

Also, Read how to extract the summary properties of the word document in this article Part II.

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Twitter WebPart for SharePoint

I have already posted a link which will guide you in creating the twitter and Face book web parts for SharePoint in this article. Twitter and FaceBook for SharePoint. Have a look at this.

Yet another easiest way for twitter is as follows:

Steps:

1. Open the site page where you want to add the twitter widgets.

2. Add a Content Editor Web part.

3. Now open this URL in your browser

http://twitter.com/about/resources/widgets

4. You will find 4 widgets (in the Widgets for my site option) which is provided by default in the Twitter Official Site

·                      Profile Widget

·                     Search Widget

·                     Faves Widget

·                     List Widget

5. All the information about the widgets will be given the site.

6. Now for example I will add the SEARCH WIDGET to our site. I click on Search Widget which will navigate to this link

http://twitter.com/about/resources/widgets/widget_search

7. You have 4 options such as Settings, Preferences, Appearance and Dimensions.

8. Here you can customize everything and my sample is shown code grabbed from the site is shown below.

<script src="http://widgets.twimg.com/j/2/widget.js">
</script>
<script>
new TWTR.Widget({
  version: 2,
  type: 'search',
  search: 'SharePoint',
  interval: 30000,
  title: 'What people are saying about',
  subject: 'SharePoint',
  width: 250,
  height: 300,
  theme: {
    shell: {
      background: '#8ec1da',
      color: '#ffffff'
    },
    tweets: {
      background: '#ffffff',
      color: '#444444',
      links: '#1985b5'
    }
  },
  features: {
    scrollbar: false,
    loop: true,
    live: true,
    hashtags: true,
    timestamp: true,
    avatars: true,
    toptweets: true,
    behavior: 'default'
  }
}).render().start();
</script>

9. That’s it!! Add this code in the Source Editor of the Content Editor Web Part.

10. This will display all the tweets with respect to the Query you gave in the Search. The webpart will look like this.

11. Save it!! Enjoy the Twitter integration in your SharePoint Site.

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RSS Feeds WebPart

In this post we will see how to create RSS feeds web part for SharePoint. it is very easy and we will learn it in the following steps.

1. Add a XML web part to a share point page where you want to add the RSS Feeds web part.
2. Edit the properties of the web part.
3. In the XSL editor place the code (given below).
4. In the XML link give the proper RSS feeds URL.
5. Click Save.
6. This will display the RSS feeds from the URL linked in the web part.

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" exclude-result-prefixes="xsl">
<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<div>
<xsl:apply-templates select="rss/channel"/>
</div>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="rss/channel">
<xsl:variable name="link" select="link"/>
<xsl:variable name="description" select="description"/>
<ul><xsl:apply-templates select="item"/></ul>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="item">
<xsl:variable name="item_link" select="link"/>
<xsl:variable name="item_title" select="description"/>
<xsl:if test="position() &lt; 6">
<li>
 <a href="{$item_link}" title="{$item_title}"><xsl:value-of select="title"/></a>
 </li>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

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