Prior to Solid Edge ST8 being released, one of the developers emailed me to give me a heads up on a new API to handle closing documents. The problem has always been that in order to close a document, you had to call the Close() method of that object. The problem was that Solid Edge couldn’t fully close the document because we were still holding a reference to it. In ST8, we have a new option available.<\/P><\/p>\n
If you download the lastest Samples for Solid Edge on GitHub<\/A>, you’ll notice a new OpenClose project<\/A>. I wrote this project to demonstrate our options for closing documents. Rather than copypasting the entire code in this post, I’ll highlight the important part. The code below is C# but the VB version is available on GitHub.<\/P><\/p>\n The main point to notice is that starting with ST8, the Documents collection has a new CloseDocument()<\/A> method. This method allows you to fully release your reference to the document prior to closing it. Something we have not had the ability to do prior to ST8.<\/P><\/p>\n \t\/\/ Release our reference to the document. \t\/\/ Give SE a chance to do post processing (finish closing the document). \t\/\/ Starting with ST8, the Documents collection has a CloseDocument() method. The definition of the Documents.CloseDocument()<\/A> method look like:<\/P><\/p>\n You will want to pass true<\/STRONG> to the DoIdle argument. That will prevent you from having to call application.DoIdle() manually.<\/P><\/p>\n Be sure and check out the Solid Edge ST8 – What’s New<\/A> SDK topic. I always enjoy browsing the What’s New pages<\/A> for each version to see what goodies the development team gave us.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prior to Solid Edge ST8 being released, one of the developers emailed me to give me a heads up on a new API to handle closing documents. The problem has always been that in order to close a document,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9681,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9680\/revisions\/9681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9680"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=9680"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=9680"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\/\/ Prior to ST8, we needed a reference to a document to close it.
\n\/\/ That meant that SE can’t fully close the document because we’re holding a reference.
\nif (solidEdgeVesion.Major < 108)
\n{
\n\t\/\/ Close the document.
\n\tdocument.Close();<\/p>\n
\n\tMarshal.FinalReleaseComObject(document);
\n\tdocument = null;<\/p>\n
\n\tapplication.DoIdle();
\n}
\nelse
\n{
\n\t\/\/ Release our reference to the document.
\n\tMarshal.FinalReleaseComObject(document);
\n\tdocument = null;<\/p>\n
\n\tdocuments.CloseDocument(file.FullName, false, Missing.Value, Missing.Value, true);
\n}<\/PRE><\/p>\nvoid CloseDocument(String Filename, [Object SaveChanges], [Object SaveAsFileName], [Object RouteWorkbook], [Object DoIdle])
\n Member of SolidEdgeFramework.Documents<\/PRE>
\n