GroupDocs.Metadata for .NET 18.12 Release Notes

Major Features

There are the following features and enhancements in this release:

• Add support for password-protected documents
• Reduce memory consumption of supported Word formats
• Reduce memory consumption of supported PowerPoint formats
• Ability to update metadata keys in Doc/Docx file format
• Remove obsolete members of the Mp3Format class
• Remove the MppFormat.GetProperties method (obsolete code)

All Changes

Public API and Backward Incompatible Changes

Support for password-protected documents

Description

This new feature allows a user to work with password-protected documents of some popular formats.

Public API changes

The LoadOptions class has been added to the GroupDocs.Metadata namespace.

The DocFormat(string, LoadOptions) constructor has been added to the DocFormat class.

The DocFormat(Stream, LoadOptions) constructor has been added to the DocFormat class.

The PptFormat(string, LoadOptions) constructor has been added to the PptFormat class.

The PptFormat(Stream, LoadOptions) constructor has been added to the PptFormat class.

The XlsFormat(string, LoadOptions) constructor has been added to the *XlsFormat *class.

The XlsFormat*(Stream, LoadOptions)* constructor has been added to the *XlsFormat *class.

The PdfFormat(string, LoadOptions) constructor has been added to the *PdfFormat *class.

The PdfFormat*(Stream, LoadOptions)* constructor has been added to the *PdfFormat *class.

Usecases

Load a password-protected PDF document.

LoadOptions loadOptions = new LoadOptions("password");
using (PdfFormat format = new PdfFormat(@"D:\protected\input.pdf", loadOptions))
{
    // Working with the password-protected document
    format.CleanMetadata();
    format.Save(@"D:\protected\output.pdf");
}

Load a password-protected Excel document.

LoadOptions loadOptions = new LoadOptions("password");
using (XlsFormat format = new XlsFormat(@"D:\protected\input.xlsx", loadOptions))
{
    // Working with the password-protected document
    format.CleanMetadata();
    format.Save(@"D:\protected\output.xlsx");
}

Load a password-protected PowerPoint document.

LoadOptions loadOptions = new LoadOptions("password");
using (PptFormat format = new PptFormat(@"D:\protected\input.pptx", loadOptions))
{
    // Working with the password-protected document
    format.CleanMetadata();
    format.Save(@"D:\protected\output.pptx");
}

Load a password-protected Word document.

LoadOptions loadOptions = new LoadOptions("password");
using (DocFormat format = new DocFormat(@"D:\protected\input.doc", loadOptions))
{
    // Working with the password-protected document
    format.CleanMetadata();
    format.Save(@"D:\protected\output.doc");
}

Check if a document is password-protected.

if (MetadataUtility.IsProtected(@"D:\protected\input.doc"))
{
    // Working with the password-protected document
}

Reduced memory consumption of supported Word formats

Description

This enhancement allows working with Word documents with less memory consumption.

Public API changes

None.

Usecases

Please note that the DocFormat class implements the IDisposable interface and it’s necessary to call the Dispose() method when you’re done working with its instance.

using (DocFormat format = new DocFormat(@"d:\input.docx"))
{
    // Working with metadata
}

If you are loading a Word document from a stream, it’s up to you to close the stream when the file is not needed anymore.

using (Stream stream = File.Open(@"d:\input.doc", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.ReadWrite))
{
    using (DocFormat format = new DocFormat(stream))
    {
        // Working with metadata
    }
    // The stream is still open here
}

The same rule works if you are saving the output file into a stream.

using (Stream stream = File.Open(@"d:\output.docx", FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.ReadWrite))
{
    using (DocFormat format = new DocFormat(@"d:\input.docx"))
    {
        // Working with metadata
 
        format.Save(stream);
    }
    // The stream is still open here
}

Reduced memory consumption of supported PowerPoint formats

Description

This enhancement allows working with PowerPoint documents with less memory consumption.

Public API changes

None.

Usecases

Please note that the PptFormat class implements the IDisposable interface and it’s necessary to call the Dispose() method when you’re done working with its instance.

using (PptFormat format = new PptFormat(@"d:\input.ppt"))
{
    // Working with metadata
}

If you are loading a Word document from a stream, it’s up to you to close the stream when the file is not needed anymore.

using (Stream stream = File.Open(@"d:\input.pptx", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.ReadWrite))
{
    using (PptFormat format = new PptFormat(stream))
    {
        // Working with metadata
    }
    // The stream is still open here
}

The same rule works if you are saving the output file into a stream.

using (Stream stream = File.Open(@"d:\output.ppt", FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.ReadWrite))
{
    using (PptFormat format = new PptFormat(@"d:\input.ppt"))
    {
        // Working with metadata
 
        format.Save(stream);
    }
    // The stream is still open here
}

Ability to update metadata keys in Doc/Docx file format

Description

This enhancement allows updating Words and Version properties of Doc/Docx file formats.

Public API changes

None.

Usecases

Update the Words and Version metadata keys in doc/docx documents.

using (DocFormat docFormat = new DocFormat(@"D:\input.doc"))
{
    docFormat.DocumentProperties["Words"] = new PropertyValue(1);
    docFormat.DocumentProperties["Version"] = new PropertyValue(851968);
 
    docFormat.Save(@"D:\output.doc");
}

Removed obsolete members of the Mp3Format class

Description

This enhancement removes some obsolete members of the Mp3Format class.

Public API changes

The Id3v1 property has been removed from the Mp3Formatclass.

The Id3v2 property has been removed from the Mp3Formatclass.

Usecases

Please use the GetId3v1Tag and GetId3v2Tag methods instead.

using (Mp3Format format = new Mp3Format(@"D:\input.mp3"))
{
    Id3v1Tag id3v1 = format.GetId3v1Tag();
    Console.WriteLine(id3v1.Album);
    Console.WriteLine(id3v1.Artist);
 
    Id3v2Tag id3v2 = format.GetId3v2Tag();
    Console.WriteLine(id3v2.Album);
    Console.WriteLine(id3v2.Artist);
}

Removed the MppFormat.GetProperties method (obsolete code)

Description

This enhancement removes some obsolete members of the MppFormat class.

Public API changes

The *GetProperties *method has been removed from the MppFormat class.

Usecases

Please use the MppFormat.ProjectInfo property instead.

using (MppFormat format = new MppFormat(@"D:\input.mpp"))
{
    Console.WriteLine(format.ProjectInfo.Author);
    Console.WriteLine(format.ProjectInfo.LastAuthor);
    Console.WriteLine(format.ProjectInfo.Company);
}