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Showing who locked a file

When opening an MS Office file that is already open by another user, the
Office App tells you who has the file open. Would someone point me to where
I can find out how to do that in .Net (vb or C#) for my own winform app.

thanks,

==Larry
Jul 21 '05 #1
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