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Otherwise, on running your app, the automation process may seem to hang unexpectedly while some background configuration is unsuccessfully attempted.

Note that if you install OpenOffice fresh for this project, you will need to run it once for it to go through some basic configuration before connecting through your application. On my system (Windows 10) the files were installed in C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenOffice 4. I installed with the default installation location and options. The code for this article was written against the OpenOffice 4.1.14 release. For Windows, only a 32 bit installer is available so applications developed against it must also be 32 bit. The OpenOffice suite installer can be downoaded from the Apache OpenOffice - Official Download site. Installing OpenOffice and the SDKīefore beginning development, OpenOffice must be installed on your system. Reasonable familiarity with Visual Studio, C# and application development is assumed. NET 4.x but OpenOffice is developed using. In particular, I describe configuring the test app to deal with mixed mode assemblies since the demo app is written in.

The tutorial will given enough detail in terms of setting some cells with various values and properties to get you going in your OpenOffice automation tasks. This article will give step by step instructions on how to install OpenOffice and the SDK, and to set up a test application to automate OpenOffice Calc - an alternative to Microsoft Excel. While documentation does exist on automating the various applications, complete "how to" guides to get a Visual Studio app working are scarce.