Documents.ItemByName does not work?

[oransen]

I'm trying to use the Documents.ItemByName as follows:

Document Doc = m_Inventor.Documents.ItemByName (sFullDocName) ;

But the complier complains about a non invocable member.

I also poticed In this post, the VB example shows ItemByName commented out and a for loop substitued.

According to the API docs my call is correct I think, so what is wrong?

[bradeneuropeArthur]

The file "sFullDocName" must be (already) open in inventor!

Than it will return....

otherwise the code runs crash..

[oransen]

Maybe I was not clear enough. The C# compiler does not accept the syntax. And by the post which I linked to from my original email neither does VB.

[chandra.shekar.g · Accepted solution]

@oransen,

Need to specify the type of object before assigning to an object.

Document Doc = (Document)m_Inventor.Documents.ItemByName (sFullDocName) ;

Thanks and regards,

[oransen]

Many thanks for that!

(You should moonlight and correct all the strange ambiguous mysterious error messages in the Microsoft C# compiler!)