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Asked: 2026-05-29T07:16:23+00:00

I have a WCF service running on the sharepoint server that will generate a

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I have a WCF service running on the sharepoint server that will generate a document in a library and return its uri. I have a client application that calls the WCF service and launches word with edit privileges of the document that was just generated. However if I just pass word the URI of the document it will open the document in Read-Only mode. Trying to save back to the server overwriting the old file gives the error saying the document is Read-Only when saving.

How do I, from code, launch word with the ability to save changes back in to the file it opened on the sharepoint server?

Note: This is not a permissions issue, if I manually go in to the sharepoint site I have rights to click on the document and open as edit.

EDIT: Ok, So I think I know how to do it (I am going to make a dll and have rundll.exe launch word and do the babysitting). However I still would like to know if there are any other solutions than manually checking in and out the document.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I did not need to check out the document, what I found out is I needed to launch iexplore.exe pointing at the URI using the following code.

    Process.Start("iexplore.exe", ((FileDetails)e.Result).Address);

    where FileDetails is the custom object the WCF service is returning and .Address is the URI of the document.

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