ImageGear .NET - Updated November 28, 2017
Tutorial: Create Your First Office Project - Console Application
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In this tutorial you will configure a C# or VB.NET project for a console application and use ImageGear .NET Office capabilities. You will also learn how to open a Word document and save it as a PDF file.

Using the desired version of Visual Studio (2010 or later):

  1. Create a new "Console Application" project using C# or VB.NET and name the project: my_first_Office_project.
  2. If you installed ImageGear .NET 64-bit using the Configuration Manager, create a new project platform (if you don't have one already) for x64.
    Make sure your project is set to compile targeting Debug and x64.
    Confirm you now have $YOURLOCALPROJ\bin\x64\Debug\, if not, create it.
  3. Copy the OfficeCore 64-bit dependencies found in $INSTALLDIR\ImageGear .Net v23 64-bit\Bin\ to the same directory where ImageGear23.Formats.Office.dll is located.
  4. Add references and required resources into your projects in one of the following ways:
    • Recommended: use our NuGet Packages. For this project, you need the following packages:
    • Manually:
      1. Copy all files (and folders) inside $INSTALLDIR\ImageGear .NET v23 64-bit\Bin\ to your local output bin directory in your project (i.e., $YOURLOCALPROJ\bin\x64\Debug\ ).
      2. Add the following references to your project from $YOURLOCALPROJ\bin\x64\Debug\:
        • ImageGear23.Core.dll
        • ImageGear23.Evaluation.dll
        • ImageGear23.Formats.Common.dll
        • ImageGear23.Formats.Office.dll
        • ImageGear23.Formats.Pdf.dll
        • ImageGear23.Formats.Vector.dll
        • ImageGear23.Presentation.dll
Your output target directory should be set to $YOURLOCALPROJ\bin\x64\Debug\  .
  1. Before you can use the Office and PDF functionality, you need to add support for those formats. Add the following code to set up evaluation licensing and add support for common image formats, Office files, and PDF files.
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    // Initialize evaluation license.
ImGearEvaluationManager.Initialize();
ImGearEvaluationManager.Mode = ImGearEvaluationMode.Watermark;

// Initialize common formats.
ImGearCommonFormats.Initialize();

// Add support for Office file types.
ImGearFileFormats.Filters.Add(ImGearOffice.CreateWordFormat());
ImGearFileFormats.Filters.Add(ImGearOffice.CreatePowerPointFormat());
ImGearFileFormats.Filters.Add(ImGearOffice.CreateExcelFormat());

// Add support for PDF files.
ImGearFileFormats.Filters.Add(ImGearPDF.CreatePDFFormat());
ImGearPDF.Initialize();
  1. For a web application, you can optionally pass the location of OfficeCore binaries, PDF binaries and resources directly in the web.config file of the application:
    Web.config
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    <appSettings>
  ......
  <add key="igOfficeCoreDir" value="C:\Users\Public\Documents\Accusoft\ImageGear.NET v23\Bin\OfficeCore" />
  <add key="igPdfResources" value="C:\Users\Public\Documents\Accusoft\ImageGear.NET v23\Bin" />
  ......
</appSettings>
  2. Now that you have added support for the file types you will be using, you can actually work with them. The following code enables you to load a Word document into an ImGearDocument, which will hold the entire loaded document. You can save that ImGearDocument as a PDF.
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    using (FileStream inStream = new FileStream(fileIn, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
using (FileStream outStream = new FileStream(fileOut, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write))
{
  int startPageNumber = 0;

  // Load Office document.
  ImGearDocument igDocument = ImGearFileFormats.LoadDocument(inStream);

  // Save PDF.
  ImGearPDFSaveOptions pdfOptions = new ImGearPDFSaveOptions();
  ImGearFileFormats.SaveDocument(igDocument, outStream, startPageNumber, ImGearSavingModes.OVERWRITE, ImGearSavingFormats.PDF, pdfOptions);
}
  1. Once you are done with the PDF component, you should dispose it.
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    ImGearPDF.Terminate();
  2. Finally, by putting all the above code snippets together your console application should look like the code below:
    Console Application: Open .docx, save to PDF.
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    using ImageGear.Core;
using ImageGear.Evaluation;
using ImageGear.Formats;
using ImageGear.Formats.Office;
using ImageGear.Formats.PDF;
using System.IO;

namespace my_first_Office_project
{
    class Program
    {
        public void SaveAs(string fileIn, string fileOut)
        {

            // Initialize evaluation license.
            ImGearEvaluationManager.Initialize();
            ImGearEvaluationManager.Mode = ImGearEvaluationMode.Watermark;

            // Initialize common formats.
            ImGearCommonFormats.Initialize();

            // Add support for Office file types.
            ImGearFileFormats.Filters.Add(ImGearOffice.CreateWordFormat());
            ImGearFileFormats.Filters.Add(ImGearOffice.CreatePowerPointFormat());
            ImGearFileFormats.Filters.Add(ImGearOffice.CreateExcelFormat());

            // Add support for PDF files.
            ImGearFileFormats.Filters.Add(ImGearPDF.CreatePDFFormat());
            ImGearPDF.Initialize();
            using (FileStream inStream = new FileStream(fileIn, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
            using (FileStream outStream = new FileStream(fileOut, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write))
            {
                int startPageNumber = 0;

                // Load Office document.
                ImGearDocument igDocument = ImGearFileFormats.LoadDocument(inStream);

                // Save PDF.
                ImGearPDFSaveOptions pdfOptions = new ImGearPDFSaveOptions();
                ImGearFileFormats.SaveDocument(igDocument, outStream, startPageNumber, ImGearSavingModes.OVERWRITE, ImGearSavingFormats.PDF, pdfOptions);
            }

            // Dispose of the PDF component.
            ImGearPDF.Terminate();
        }
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Program myProgram = new Program();
            myProgram.SaveAs(@"C:\PATHTOWORDDOC\FILENAME.docx", @"C:\PATHTOPDF\NEWNAME.pdf");
        }
    }
}

 

 

 

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