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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.

For local development, ImageGear .NET must be installed from the product installer. This will ensure that licensing is set up properly for local development. Once ImageGear .NET is installed, projects can use NuGet for building and deployment.

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\Bin\x64 to the same directory where ImageGear.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\Bin\x64 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\:
        • ImageGear.Core.dll
        • ImageGear.Evaluation.dll
        • ImageGear.Formats.Common.dll
        • ImageGear.Formats.Office.dll
        • ImageGear.Formats.Pdf.dll
        • ImageGear.Formats.Vector.dll
        • ImageGear.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();
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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="$INSTALLDIR\Bin\x64\OfficeCore" />
  <add key="igPdfResources" value="$INSTALLDIR\Bin\x64" />
  ......
</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);
}
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    Using inStream As New FileStream(fileIn, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read)
Using outStream As New FileStream(fileOut, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write)
 Dim startPageNumber As Integer = 0

 ' Load Office document.
 Dim igDocument As ImGearDocument = ImGearFileFormats.LoadDocument(inStream)

 ' Save PDF.
 Dim pdfOptions As New ImGearPDFSaveOptions()
 ImGearFileFormats.SaveDocument(igDocument, outStream, startPageNumber, ImGearSavingModes.OVERWRITE, ImGearSavingFormats.PDF, pdfOptions)
End Using
End Using
  1. Once you are done with the PDF component, you should dispose it.
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    ImGearPDF.Terminate();
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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");
        }
    }
}
    Console Application: Open .docx, save to PDF.
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    Imports ImageGear.Core
Imports ImageGear.Evaluation
Imports ImageGear.Formats
Imports ImageGear.Formats.Office
Imports ImageGear.Formats.PDF
Imports System.IO
Namespace my_first_Office_project
 Class Program
  Public Sub SaveAs(fileIn As String, fileOut As String)

   ' Initialize evaluation license.
   ImGearEvaluationManager.Initialize()
   ImGearEvaluationManager.Mode = ImGearEvaluationMode.Watermark

   ' Initialize common formats.
   ImGearCommonFormats.Initialize()
   ImGearFileFormats.Filters.Add(ImGearOffice.CreateWordFormat())
   ImGearFileFormats.Filters.Add(ImGearOffice.CreatePowerPointFormat())
   ImGearFileFormats.Filters.Add(ImGearOffice.CreateExcelFormat())
   ImGearFileFormats.Filters.Add(ImGearPDF.CreatePDFFormat())
   Using inStream As New FileStream(fileIn, FileMode.Open)
    Using outStream As New FileStream(fileOut, FileMode.Create)
     Dim startPageNumber As Integer = 0

     ' Load Office document.
     Dim igDocument As ImGearDocument = ImGearFileFormats.LoadDocument(inStream)

     ' Save PDF.
     Dim pdfOptions As New ImGearPDFSaveOptions()
     ImGearFileFormats.SaveDocument(igDocument, outStream, startPageNumber, ImGearSavingModes.OVERWRITE, ImGearSavingFormats.PDF, pdfOptions)
    End Using
   End Using

   ' Dispose of the PDF component.
   ImGearPDF.Terminate()
  End Sub
  Private Shared Sub Main(args As String())
   Dim myProgram As New Program()
   myProgram.SaveAs("C:\PATHTOWORDDOC\FILENAME.docx", "C:\PATHTOPDF\NEWNAME.pdf")
  End Sub
 End Class
End Namespace

 

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