Subclassing and hooking the Microsoft Office 2000/2003/2007 File Open / Save Dialog

Hello everybody,

I am in the middle of a project that involves hooking the file/open save and browse for folder dialog boxes of he currently installed windows applications and manipulate them by sending windows message codes.

I am stuck with a problem in doing that.

I have been able to hook into the file/open save dialog boxes and manipulate them , when the applications (Notepad,Wordpad,Adobe Acrobat etc.) uses the windows common control dialogs (i.e Common Dialog Box Library).The window class type of these type of dialogs is #32770(Dialog).

But the microsoft office suite doesnot use this library to generate the file open / save dialogs. The class type for the

MS Office dialogs is "bosa_sdm_Microsoft Office * " , where the " * " stands for Word,Excel,Access etc.

The MSDN states that

The following are messages that a hook procedure can send to an Explorer-style Open or Save As dialog box.

CDM_GETFILEPATH
CDM_GETFOLDERIDLIST
CDM_GETFOLDERPATH
CDM_GETSPEC
CDM_HIDECONTROL
CDM_SETCONTROLTEXT
CDM_SETDEFEXT

But unfortunately sending these messages using

LRESULT SendMessage(
HWND hWnd, // handle to destination window
UINT Msg, // message
WPARAM wParam, // first message parameter
LPARAM lParam // second message parameter
);

won't do any good in case of Microsoft Office dialogs.

The MSDN also doesnot state what messages I can send to the office dialogs from the hook function to manipulate them or retrieve retrieve information regarding the current folder/file path within the office dialog.

So I am requesting everybody here to provide me the required guidance.

I will be greatful if you people can provide anything useful.

Thanks and regards,

hello:

Have you resolved your question?
Could you tell me how to hook into the file/open save dialog boxes and manipulate them.I hope you could give me some codde ^_^.my email is zyf6392@yahoo.ca

I will be greatful if you could help me.
Thanks and regards.