GroupDocs.Metadata for .NET 17.05 Release Notes

This page contains release notes for GroupDocs.Metadata for .NET 17.05.0

Major Features

There are 2 new features in this regular monthly release. The most notable are:

Ability to read all revisions in Word format
Ability to accept or reject revisions in Word format

All Changes

Key	Summary	Category
METADATANET-1570	Ability to read all revisions in Word format	New Feature
METADATANET-1722	Ability to accept or reject revisions in Word format	New Feature

Public API and Backward Incompatible Changes

This section lists public API changes that were introduced in GroupDocs.Metadata for .NET 17.05.0 It includes not only new and obsoleted public methods, but also a description of any changes in the behavior behind the scenes in GroupDocs.Metadata which may affect existing code. Any behavior introduced that could be seen as a regression and modifies existing behavior is especially important and is documented here.

Ability to read all revisions in Word format

This feature allows to read all track changes(revisions) in Word document.

Public API changes

Added RevisionType enum into namespace GroupDocs.Metadata.Formats.Document
Added Revision class into namespace GroupDocs.Metadata.Formats.Document
Added RevisionCollection class into namespace GroupDocs.Metadata.Formats.Document

Given below example demonstrates how to read track changes (revisions) in Word document

// path to the MS Word file
string path = @"c:\download files\CV.docx";

// initialize DocFormat
DocFormat docFormat = new DocFormat(path);

// get revisions
RevisionCollection revisionCollection = docFormat.Revisions;

// get revisions count
Console.WriteLine("Revisions: {0}", revisionCollection.Count);

foreach (Revision revision in revisionCollection)
{
  // display revision type
  Console.WriteLine("Revision -  type: {0}, ", revision.RevisionType);

  // display revision author
  Console.Write("author: {0}, ", revision.Author);

  // display revision date
  Console.Write("date: {0}", revision.DateTime);
}

Ability to accept or reject revisions in Word format

This feature allows to accept or reject track changes (revisions) in Word document.

Public API changes

This example demonstrates how to accept all changes in Word document.

// path to the MS Word file
string path = @"c:\download files\CV.docx";

// initialize DocFormat
DocFormat docFormat = new DocFormat(path);

// get revisions
RevisionCollection revisionCollection = docFormat.Revisions;

// accept all revisions
revisionCollection.AcceptAll();

// and commit changes
docFormat.Save();

This example demonstrates how to reject all changes in Word document.

// path to the MS Word file
string path = @"c:\download files\CV.docx";

// initialize DocFormat
DocFormat docFormat = new DocFormat(path);

// get revisions
RevisionCollection revisionCollection = docFormat.Revisions;

// reject all revisions
revisionCollection.RejectAll();

// and commit changes
docFormat.Save();