Writing a class to open a word doc

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Before I spend time trying to do this I'd like to get a second opinion. I'm writing an application and in it I need to open a word doc in about 4 different places (as of now). So instead of writing the same code 4 times I'm thinking a class would be the way to go? I'm thinking pass the file name to the class and process as normal (all of the error handling is taken care of in the loops right now). Does this sound feasible?

Posted 26-Apr-11 10:28am

MacRaider4

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Not Active · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-26T10:33:00

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Writing reusable code rather than cut & paste the same thing over and over again is a good design and what you should strive for in all your software.

Posted 26-Apr-11 10:33am

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MacRaider4 26-Apr-11 16:35pm

That's what I figured, and using the word object in a seperate class won't cause any issues right? Just have to do all the usual declerations and what not...

NuttingCDEF 26-Apr-11 16:36pm

Agreed - and might add some stuff in to your class to handle the Word App object intelligently so that you aren't forever starting up / shutting down Word (and killing your app's performance in the process).

MacRaider4 26-Apr-11 16:43pm

Actually I have a lot of that already in there, thus the reason I didn't want to have it in so many locations. So far easier than I thought it would be (still getting used to using classes), only took about 5 min to implement in 2 locations.

Nish Nishant · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-26T10:34:00

Whether it is feasible depends on how well your code works. But in general, yes, you should not have to repeat the same code in multiple places. Even twice is too many. So extracting a class/static method that does this would certainly be an improvement.

In a UI scenario, you mght even want to have a custom control that accepts a word document path and renders it.