Use google docs in asp.net application

Question

How can I use GOOGLE DOCS in my project which I am doing using asp.net with C# as code behind.

Basically I need to display some pdf, doc,dox,excel documents in a read only form in the browser.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Google docs has an API for that.

The Google Documents List Data API allows client applications to programmatically access and manipulate user data stored with Google Documents.

Check it's documentation, it has examples and everything you would need to develop something based on google docs.

Answer 2

using System;  
using System.IO;  
using System.Net;  
using Google.Documents;  
using Google.GData.Client;  

namespace Google  
{  
    class Program  
    {  
        private static string applicationName = "Testing";  

        static void Main(string[] args)  
        {  
            GDataCredentials credentials = new GDataCredentials("[email protected]", "password");  
            RequestSettings settings = new RequestSettings(applicationName, credentials);  
            settings.AutoPaging = true;  
            settings.PageSize = 100;  
            DocumentsRequest documentsRequest = new DocumentsRequest(settings);  
            Feed<document> documentFeed = documentsRequest.GetDocuments();  
            foreach (Document document in documentFeed.Entries)  
            {  
                Document.DownloadType type = Document.DownloadType.pdf;  

                Stream downloadStream = documentsRequest.Download(document, type);  

                Stream fileSaveStream = new FileStream(string.Format(@"C:\Temp\{0}.pdf", document.Title), FileMode.CreateNew);  

                if (fileSaveStream != null)  
                {  
                    int nBytes = 2048;  
                    int count = 0;  
                    Byte[] arr = new Byte[nBytes];  

                    do  
                    {  
                        count = downloadStream.Read(arr, 0, nBytes);  
                        fileSaveStream.Write(arr, 0, count);  

                    } while (count > 0);  
                    fileSaveStream.Flush();  
                    fileSaveStream.Close();  
                }  
                downloadStream.Close();  
            }  

        }  
    }  
}