NullException while creating document -- TextBlock.GetBody

Thank you very much for this project.

I have problem using it though, because right at the start, when you are loading/creating the document with DocumentFactory.Create I got null exception. The issue is with TextBlock.GetBody and its loop while (nextElement != endParent).

Inside the body there is soft casting to OpenXmlCompositeElement on the assumption that every element is indeed OpenXmlCompositeElement, but if it is not the case, the outcome of the cast would be null, and on next iteration null exception will be thrown.

And in my case it is what happens, at one point DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.BookmarkEnd appears (it does not inherit from OpenXmlCompositeElement).

[egonl]

Could you also post how you’re calling SharpDocx? I guess you’re doing something like:

            var document = DocumentFactory.Create(viewPath);

instead of

            var document = DocumentFactory.Create(viewPath, model);

DocumentFactory needs to know the type of the model. If it doesn’t, it will generate public string Model { get; set; } instead of public MyViewModelType Model { get; set; }. Which will lead to a compilation error in foreach (var sensor in Model.Sensors).

[astrowalker]

Many thanks for the update. Indeed I had such combo

Create...
SetModel

and the first one failed. Now I have Create with two arguments as you shown, and the creation was successful. So I think it is safe to close this report as fixed. Once again, thank you very much!