Open password protected VBA project programmatically

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Case: I have a app written in C#. This app opens VBA Projects (Word). Some VBA Projects are password protected. I use this two libraries:

using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word;
using Microsoft.Vbe.Interop;

Problem: How can I programmatically open the password protected ones? I'm thinking about popping a window to the user with "Enter password" or something similar.

See THIS There is a code for vb.net. I am sure you can change it to C# — Siddharth Rout
– Siddharth Rout, Commented Jul 17, 2014 at 14:36
Also, this Codeproject Q&A has C# code for protecting and unprotecting Word documents. I haven't tried it myself, but it's worth a shot. — djikay
– djikay, Commented Jul 18, 2014 at 1:11

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:59:02Z

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There is a way to unprotect VBA project for Excel file. So let see if you can apply similar approach for Word VBA project

you can find the solution from Siddharth Rout in the below post.

Unprotect VBProject from VB code

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arnie · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-18 09:02:17Z

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Unprotecting a "word document" is implemented. But unfortunately there is no method to unprotect a "protected VBA project".

Workarround: With the read only "Protection" field, I check if it's protected and skip this VBA project. After that I show a list with skipped projects to the user.

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