Can someone tell me what the parameters are?

[Henry Stock]

I was just looking that the Word Document Model and at code for creating a
Word Document. The C# code appears to have several more parameters for
creating a Word Document than does Visual Basic. I am curious why...
As you can see from the code below they list 3 ref variables after the
template. What can you do with those variables?

Visual Basic
ThisApplication.Documents.Add(Template:="C:\Test\M yTemplate.Dot")

// C#
object missingValue = Type.Missing;
object template = "c:\\temp\\MyTemplate.dot";
ThisApplication.Documents.Add(ref template, ref missingValue, ref
missingValue, ref missingValue);

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[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Henry,

The reason for this is because C# doesn't support optional parameters,
which COM does. Because of this, you are forced to pass in values for every
parameter, the missing ones being Type.Missing.

Hope this helps.
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I was just looking that the Word Document Model and at code for creating a
Word Document. The C# code appears to have several more parameters for
creating a Word Document than does Visual Basic. I am curious why...
As you can see from the code below they list 3 ref variables after the
template. What can you do with those variables?

Visual Basic
ThisApplication.Documents.Add(Template:="C:\Test\M yTemplate.Dot")

// C#
object missingValue = Type.Missing;
object template = "c:\\temp\\MyTemplate.dot";
ThisApplication.Documents.Add(ref template, ref missingValue, ref
missingValue, ref missingValue);

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Henry Stock, Network Administrator
onProject.com
3 Wing Drive
Cedar Knolls, NJ 07927-1006