Embedded OLE objects in VB .NET ?

[smritiy]

I have a MS Word document and I'm iterating through every Shape/Inline shape in it (I'm using VB .NET). And I want to save each of these shapes into a separate file. If its an image/drawing/diagram then in a GIF file, if its an audio then MP3/WAV/MIDI file and so on. However I'm having problems with embedded OLE objects. I have a MP3 and a RAM file embedded in the document. But I can't seem to find any way to get a handle to these objects or the link to these files. I tried OLEFormat.object but I get an "No such interface supported" error. Smriti

[ramaseb]

Hi.. have you used the new stuff from OFFICE 2003 , ( the new object model and the native .net support ) !! you can find some info at msdn.microsoft.com or http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understanding/officesystem/codesamples/default.aspx?pull=/msdnmag/issues/03/09/microsoftoffice2003/toc.asp Hope I helped you.. Ramaseb Ramaseb.

[smritiy]

Yup, I'm using the new model only. I don't know about the old model but the new document is like this: Shape/InlineShape -> OleFormat property -> Object property The OLEFormat property is supposed to be used when the shape is an OLE object. So in case of images I access the image through Shape.OLEFormat.object. But it doesn't seem to work when the object is an audio/video file. Thanks anyway, Smriti