ServerDocument.AddCustomization Method (String, Uri)

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07/25/2011

Attaches a customization to the specified document by using the specified assembly name and deployment manifest.

Namespace: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications
Assembly: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.ServerDocument (in Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.ServerDocument.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Shared Sub AddCustomization ( _
    documentPath As String, _
    deploymentManifestUrl As Uri _
)

public static void AddCustomization(
    string documentPath,
    Uri deploymentManifestUrl
)

Parameters

documentPath
Type: System.String
The full path of the document to which you want to attach a customization.

deploymentManifestUrl
Type: System.Uri
The URL of the deployment manifest for the solution.

Exceptions

Exception	Condition
ArgumentNullException	documentPath or deploymentManifestUrl is nulla null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) or empty.
ArgumentException	deploymentManifestUrl does not specify an absolute URL.
FileNotFoundException	documentPath or deploymentManifestUrl refers to a file that does not exist.
DocumentAlreadyCustomizedException	The document specified by documentPath already has a customization.
InvalidManifestException	The deployment manifest specified by deploymentManifestUrl is not a valid deployment manifest.
DocumentNotCustomizedException	The document specified by documentPath is corrupt, or has restricted permissions.
UnknownCustomizationFileException	The document specified by documentPath has a file name extension that is not supported by the Visual Studio Tools for Office runtime.

Remarks

The AddCustomization method associates the specified customization with the document by adding the _AssemblyName and _AssemblyLocation custom document properties to the document. These properties identify that the document has a customization and specify the location of the deployment manifest. After this method is successfully called, the next time a user opens the specified document, the runtime will attempt to install the Office solution. For more information about the custom document properties, see Custom Document Properties Overview.

If the specified document does not contain a control that the customization expects the document to have, the AddCustomization method will succeed, but the assembly will fail to load when the user opens the document.

The fileType parameter must specify a document that has a file name extension that is supported for document-level customizations. You cannot attach a customization to a document that is saved in the Word XML Document (*xml) or Word 2003 XML Document (*xml) file formats. For more information about the supported file types, see Architecture of Document-Level Customizations.

Examples

The following code example uses the AddCustomization method to attach a customization to the specified document.

This example requires:

A console application project or some other non-Office project.
References to the following assemblies:
- Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.ServerDocument.dll and Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Runtime.dll (if the project targets the .NET Framework 4).
  
  or
- Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.ServerDocument.v10.0.dll and Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Runtime.v9.0.dll (if the project targets the .NET Framework 3.5).
Imports (for Visual Basic) or using (for C#) statements for Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications and Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Runtime namespaces at the top of your code file.

Private Sub AddCustomizationUsingDocumentPath(ByVal documentPath As String, _
    ByVal deployManifestPath As String)
    Dim runtimeVersion As Integer = 0

    Try
        ' Make sure that this document does not yet have any Visual Studio Tools 
        ' for Office customizations.
        runtimeVersion = ServerDocument.GetCustomizationVersion(documentPath)
        If runtimeVersion = 0 Then
            Dim deploymentManifestUri As New Uri(deployManifestPath)
            ServerDocument.AddCustomization(documentPath, deploymentManifestUri)
            MessageBox.Show("The document was successfully customized.")
        Else
            System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show("The document is already customized.")
        End If

    Catch ex As System.IO.FileNotFoundException
        System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show("The specified document does not exist.")
    Catch ex As UnknownCustomizationFileException
        System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show("The specified document has a file " & _
            "extension that is not supported by Visual Studio Tools for Office.")
    Catch ex As DocumentNotCustomizedException
        System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show("The document could not be customized." & _
        vbLf & ex.Message)
    End Try
End Sub

private void AddCustomizationUsingDocumentPath(string documentPath, string deployManifestPath)
{
    int runtimeVersion = 0;

    try
    {
        runtimeVersion = ServerDocument.GetCustomizationVersion(documentPath);

        // Make sure that this document does not yet have any Visual Studio Tools 
        // for Office customizations.
        if (runtimeVersion == 0)
        {
            Uri deploymentManifestUri = new Uri(deployManifestPath);
            ServerDocument.AddCustomization(documentPath, deploymentManifestUri);
            MessageBox.Show("The document was successfully customized.");
        }
        else
        {
            System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show("The document is already customized.");
        }
    }
    catch (System.IO.FileNotFoundException)
    {
        System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show("The specified document does not exist.");
    }
    catch (UnknownCustomizationFileException)
    {
        System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show("The specified document has a file " +
            "extension that is not supported by Visual Studio Tools for Office.");
    }
    catch (DocumentNotCustomizedException ex)
    {
        System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show("The document could not be customized.\n" +
            ex.Message);
    }
}

.NET Framework Security

Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see Using Libraries from Partially Trusted Code.

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