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Using API to open Text file

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Sinha
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Using API to open Text file

Hi All,

I want to open a Text file, namely, a specific Keynote File or a Manual from Contextual Tool Bar.

Anyone any experience in this?

 

thanks

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jeremytammik
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Dear Sinha,

 

You can use the standard .NET functionality, e.g. the StreamReader, e.g. as demonstrated here by The Building Coder:

 

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2013/10/text-file-driven-automatic-placement-of-family-inst...

 

Cheers,

 

Jeremy



Jeremy Tammik
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Autodesk Developer Network, ADN Open
The Building Coder

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