How to open an editor document without a file

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Shimon - 01 Mar 2005 07:55 GMT

Hi,

I wish to open a document window without attaching it to a file. How can i
do this?

For example, i would like to click on a toolbar button to open the document,
without attaching a file to it (i wish to present a data that is already in
memory, and this data is readonly).

BTW: I am working on VSIP 7.1, with the managed package (c#).

Thanks,
Shimon

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Bill Foust - 08 Mar 2005 14:16 GMT

I tried to do this as well and was basically told that you cant. So I create
a temp file and hook into the document notifications so that when the
document is saved for closed, I koad a seperate copy and grab the contents.

Bill

> Hi,
>
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> Thanks,
> Shimon

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Chris Lovett - 17 Apr 2005 07:59 GMT

Actually, I found that you can use
IVsUIShellOpenDocument::OpenDocumentViaProjectWithSpecific editor then using
the IVsHierarchy that you get back you can make the document act like it has
no file yet (like a miscellaneous file) by setting properties
onIVsUIHierarchy , namely:
VSHPROPID_IsNewUnsavedItem = true
VSHPROPID_Caption = whatever you want
and you can set the VSFPROPID_OwnerCaption on the returned IVsWindowFrame to
whatever you want.
Then when the user tries to save the file they will be prompted for a file
name.

>I tried to do this as well and was basically told that you cant. So I
>create
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>> Thanks,
>> Shimon

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