[MonoDevelop] OpenOffice API?

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Wed May 2 23:12:17 UTC 2012


On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 18:29 -0400, cmorel at kolibree.ca wrote: 
> Hello,
> I am new to the list, this is my first post! Don't know if anybody can
> help me on this.
> I installed MonoDevelop version 2.4 today on my machine running linux Ubuntu.
> All what I want to do is a console app which will read an OpenOffice
> spreadsheet.
> Apparently this is feasible. I have searched for some add-in that will
> expose some API for OpenOffice but all what I found is add-in "OpenOffice
> Automation Samples 1.0" for version 1.x of MonoDevelop.
> Anything for version 2.4? If yes, in which repository?

Very sadly I've never seen anything more current or in-depth than those
and the work they are derived from.

<http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2008/Jun-12.html>

The awesome potential is pretty much left of the floor unless you have
the time to really dig into the mechanics.

I've successfully used UNO from PHP via PHP-UNO [communicating with a
headless OpenOffice service].  That code operates in production or
generate PDF and XLS content.  But I haven't seen anything else beyond
using the service to convert file types.
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