Uploading and Downloading documents from a Office Live Business Application using DAV/FPRPC

It’s somewhat difficult to work with Front Page RPCs.  We’ve heard this from folks, and I recently solved it for myself in a client app that uploads and downloads files from document libraries sitting in a custom business application in Microsoft Office Live. 

I wrapped up the FPRPC and DAV code in a class library for use in any client application. Figured I should share this to save you some effort.

This Sample allows working with documents in a Office Live Business Application using FPRPC or DAV.

Note that this has not gone through testing and has no guarantees etc.

How to use the sample?

• Download Document Handler (FPRPC/DAV) Sample and extract all files.
• Re-add the reference to Microsoft.Windows.Live.Id
• Build the project.
• Output is a dll DocumentHandler.dll
• In your client application reference this and use it as follows.

  string OfficeLiveFileURL = "https://mysitecom.officelive.com/Documents/documents/ClickToCall.doc"
  string NewOfficeLiveFileURLDoc = https://mysitecom.officelive.com/Documents/documents/NewClickToCallDoc.doc

  DocumentHandler.DocumentManager dm = new DocumentHandler.DocumentManager();
  

  //BusinessName is your Business Application Name in

  //Office Live that you want to use.
  dm.BusinessName = "Document Manager"
  dm.UserName = administrator@northwindinn.com
  

  //This brings up the liveID sign on box to sign you in.
  dm.SignIn();

  //Use FPRPC
  string result = dm.UploadFileViaRPC(NewOfficeLiveFileURLDoc, "C:\\LocalFile.doc");
  result = dm.DownloadFileViaRPC(OfficeLiveFileURL, "c:\\LocalFile.doc");

  //Use DAV
  result = dm.UploadFileViaWebDAV(NewOfficeLiveFileURLDoc,
  "C:\\LocalFile.doc");
  result = dm.DownloadFileViaWebDAV(OfficeLiveFileURL, "C:\\LocalFile.doc");

• Build and Run.