Are there any free C# Asp.Net API's to host a server that has cloud capabilities.
All I really want is for users to be able to download Word Documents, The server marks it as locked. Then the user can edit and click "SAVE AS" And it saves it back to my server.
I dont want to use a third party server for this it.
The Microsoft .Net Framework is a free API that has cloud capabilities (ASP.Net).
You will have to implement the code to present the documents and lock them. And find a way to expose the server to the web.
Sounds like Sharepoint to me. A foundation version with the functionality you describe comes free with Small Business Server
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I'd like to implement somehow an endpoint on a .NET core WebAPI that allow a user to edit an Office document that he has beforehand downloaded and automatically opened in office from my WebAPI, and save it directly from the Office desktop client.
How could I do that ? One possibility is to DAV enable my API but I'm looking for a more lighter solution as I only want to manage opening and editing office document.
Currently my API sends the file and I'm planning to implement my web client to tells the system to open it in Office via Office URI Schema. I managed to open a word file in my Word Desktop app but I am stuck at this point and don't know how to edit and save it back.
Thanks for your help.
We have Office Web Apps and WOPI working and can load a powerpoint file and edit it.
However getting edit working for Word require implementing Cobalt or FSSHTTP/FSSHTTPB protocol?
The user here has kindly provided most of the code for everything(Can I just use Office Web Apps Server)
Has anybody implemented a Cobalt or FSSHTTP/FSSHTTPB protocol within this context?
I write a Wopi Host demo.
With Cobalt(FSSHTTPB/D) support for Office Web Apps.
Support DOCX Editing, and also PPTX,XLSX.
Requires Microsoft.CobaltCore.dll
https://github.com/marx-yu/WopiHost
thanks thebitllc's great work
Well you could start by grabbing a cobalt assembly from the Office Web Apps machine, I think its called Microsoft.Cobalt.dll.. It should help you to decipher the messages. I am trying to get back to work on this proof-of-concept. If I get it to work I'll post a quick reference here. But the documentation sucks, I have to intercept the messages between the sharepoint and office web apps to make sense of them.
As of February 13, 2015 it seems the WOPI protocol now allows the server to specify whether it supports co-authoring of a given file in the CheckFileInfo endpoint response. So you can avoid the nastiness of the Cobalt implementation.
We have an Enterprise application written in C# that we well to customers. The server runs in our data center and the customers connect via a windows application also written in C#. Pretty standard.
Management would like a dashboard added to our application. I was told to look into using sharepoint to somehow add a sharepoint dashboard to the main screen of our client application (winforms).
Is this possible? The client application would have to somehow show a web page from the sharepoint server which I guess is no problem using a html componenent. But I'm more worried about getting sharepoint to work with our existing data (sql server 2008).
I suggested just writing the dashboard ourselves and avoiding sharepoint. But management would like to add more 'Business Intelligence' to our application. I know that is the way of the future but I'm worried about the complexity of integration with sharepoint.
There are various options for integrating SharePoint into a windows forms application. The simplest is embedding a web browser control and point it to the page with the dashboard set up.
Alternatively you could use the SharePoint client object model (2)(make calls to the SharePoint server) and retrieve data (and potentially pages) from SharePoint to put into your dashboard.
I would recommend to management that we can display SharePoint through our current application, and we can demonstrate with a simple dashboard part (eg chart control) to demonstrate how we can make the dashboard integrate more naturally over time piece by piece. This would minimise risk by displaying from SharePoint, while being able to show the potential advantages of using the SharePoint data and creating a customised windows forms dashboard.
SharePoint does a good job of going either way with information via BCS, assuming you would want to show LOB data in a SharePoint deployment.
However, since you want to go the other way, the Client Object Model works well with this. Seeing as how it is a .NET application, I can site specific times where we have used the built in REST services to get information from lists in our enterprise SharePoint deployments.
Security will need to be addressed as well, so don't forget about that. If you have AD groups already set up for your enterprise application, you can most likely reuse some of those in SharePoint. If you don't, you will have to now manage how data will be secured. You may also end up getting prompted for a log in to SP which is never a good user experience.
Good luck!
I am working on a project where I need to embed a web server into my C# application so the application could display it's status via HTTP. I suppose I'll want to configure it through the http also.
I am looking for an open-source library written in C# and with a licensing scheme that will allow me to link it into my existing closed source code (LGPL). Any suggestions of specific products or where to look first?
It would be great if that product could have some kind of scripting, at least templates. All html output would go from the application, only resources would be stored on the disk (images, icons, ...)
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I would like it to run under .NET 2.0, however.
Have a look at Microsoft Cassini, a simple HTTP server written in C# licensed under Ms-PL. It's basically a demo how to host the ASP.NET runtime.
I'd like to fetch some files from a SharePoint site, however I do not want to use the web services as a) I want to be compatible with both 2007 and 2010 and b) I'm not sure if Web Services can give me all files on a site.
SharePoint Designer can do that, and it seems to use FrontPage Server Extensions using _vti_bin/Author.dll. Also, I can access it in Windows using Map Network Drive -> Map Web Site, which I think is using WebDAV.
Is there any C# implementation of either a WebDAV Client or a Author.dll Client?
You could change this code to download. http://geek.hubkey.com/2007/10/upload-file-to-sharepoint-document.html. Just search around for different upload code and mess with it. I would give you my code for uploading files but I am on vacation and I promised myself that I would not log into work :). That link should get you pointed in the right direction.