How do I open an already openeded presentation with PresentationDocument.Open() for PowerPoint Add in?

Question

I have a PowerPoint Add in that create, modify and save presentations. Specific options for the opened presentation should be stored in this presentation file (.pptx) using Open XML, when i try to do this I get an IOException:

**System.IO.IOException : The process cannot access the file 'test.pptx' because it is being used by another process.**

This is a snippet from the code:

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using (PresentationDocument pptPackage = PresentationDocument.Open(fileName, true))
{
// add options to pptx file.
}

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Thank you.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 12 '14 at 22:04

If you need just to read opened presentation using Open XML you can do it this way:

using (Stream stream = new FileStream(_fileName, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.ReadWrite))
using (PresentationDocument pptPackage = PresentationDocument.Open(stream, false))
{
    // read pptx file.
}

But you can't change presentation this way.

How do I open an already openeded presentation with PresentationDocument.Open() for PowerPoint Add in?

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