Therefore Programming Interface 3.0

1

Connect to the Thereforeâ„¢ server (see "Server - Connect and Disconnect" for Details)

2

Declare and initialize a new TheDocument instance.

3

Retrieve the document from the server.

4

Open the document in the Thereforeâ„¢ Viewer.

Requirements and Assumptions:

Document number 42 exists in your Thereforeâ„¢ system.

If these assumptions do not apply to your system or configuration please replace them with appropriate values when copying the code samples below.

Visual Basic

Imports Therefore.API

'...

' 1. Connect to the Thereforeâ„¢ server            

Dim server As New TheServer

server.Connect(TheClientType.CustomApplication)

' 2. Declare and initialize a new Thereforeâ„¢ document

Dim doc As New TheDocument

' 3. Retrieve the document from the server to the inbox

Dim docNo As Integer = 42 

Dim filename As String = doc.Retrieve(docNo, "", server) 

' 4. Open the document in the Thereforeâ„¢ Viewer.

doc.View()

C#

using Therefore.API;

//...

// 1. Connect to the Thereforeâ„¢ server            

TheServer server = new TheServer();

server.Connect(TheClientType.CustomApplication);

// 2. Declare and initialize a new Thereforeâ„¢ document

TheDocument doc = new TheDocument();

// 3. Retrieve the document from the server to the inbox

int docNo = 42;

string filename = doc.Retrieve(docNo, "", server);

// 4. Open the document in the Thereforeâ„¢ Viewer.

doc.View();

Using the Default Thereforeâ„¢ Inbox

If the empty string ("") is passed as the second (strInbox) parameter of the Retrieve method, the default Thereforeâ„¢ inbox will be used for retrieval.

TheDocument class

TheDocument.Archive method

TheDocument.Retrieve method

TheDocument.View method

TheServer class