I have a Windows application that has an Email module. The form contains an RTF control where the client can add any Rich Text and I convert that to HTML and set it as the email body when I send an email. The problem is that it has been prompting to save the document before sending the email and I am trying to do this behind the scenes so that no word document is saved to the users machine. This is the code that does the converting:
private string RtfToHtml(string strRTF)
{
//Declare a Word Application Object and a Word WdSaveOptions object
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application myWord;
Object oDoNotSaveChanges = Word.WdSaveOptions.wdDoNotSaveChanges;
//Declare two strings to handle the data
string sReturnString = string.Empty;
string sConvertedString = string.Empty;
try
{
//Instantiate the Word application,
//set visible to false and create a document
myWord = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application();
myWord.Visible = false;
myWord.Documents.Add();
// Create a DataObject to hold the Rich Text
//and copy it to the clipboard
System.Windows.Forms.DataObject doRTF = new System.Windows.Forms.DataObject();
doRTF.SetData("Rich Text Format", strRTF);
Clipboard.SetDataObject(doRTF);
// 'Paste the contents of the clipboard to the empty,
//'hidden Word Document
myWord.Windows[1].Selection.Paste();
// '…then, select the entire contents of the document
//'and copy back to the clipboard
myWord.Windows[1].Selection.WholeStory();
myWord.Windows[1].Selection.Copy();
// 'Now retrieve the HTML property of the DataObject
//'stored on the clipboard
sConvertedString = Clipboard.GetData(System.Windows.Forms.DataFormats.Html).ToString();
// Remove some leading text that shows up in some instances
// '(like when you insert it into an email in Outlook
sConvertedString = sConvertedString.Substring(sConvertedString.IndexOf("<html"));
// 'Also remove multiple  characters that somehow end up in there
sConvertedString = sConvertedString.Replace("Â", "");
//'…and you're done.
sReturnString = sConvertedString;
if (myWord != null)
{
myWord.Documents[1].Close(oDoNotSaveChanges);
((Word._Application)myWord).Quit(oDoNotSaveChanges);
myWord = null;
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show("Error converting Rich Text to HTML: " + ex.Message);
}
return sReturnString;
}
...and this prompts the user to save a word document...but it works fine in my development environment. Does anyone have any idea of why this would happen? Thanks
