Closing a document without doing a .dispose (C#, CLI)

[Gravel]

I have customised LarsB's example of a command line PDF converter.
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=29198&highlight=converting+pdf

Basically I've created a .NET assembly written in C# which performs the same logic but also does some other custom file stuff.

I load this assembly from a .NET service which will read from a MSMQ queue. Upon receiving a message it will convert a .DOC to a .PDF file and reply to the calling application with status etc...

The file conversions need to be fast and I need to keep OpenOffice open and keep the objects loaded in memory.

Now to my question:

How can I just close the document programatically without calling a .dispose on the XComponent?

Thanks in advance for any input.

[LarsB]

Hi,

what's wrong with the dispose method? If you start your conversation first
the OpenOffice process will be started, and even if you close resp. dispose
the converted document the process won't be killed and the next start
will be much more faster then the first one. So in sum, you only lost some
execution time during the first start. Or do you need this bevahior anyway?
If yes, you could load the document into the existing current frame. OpenOffice
will then don't shut down, it will only close the current document and load
the new one into the existing frame. If this an option for you. You should give
your frame unique names and call the loadComponentFroUrl with this frame
as target frame. See the description of loadComponentFromUrl details.

Hope this help you out.

Cheers,
LarsB
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