A prime example of crappy MSDN ​documentati​on

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.office.interop.word.view.showxmlmarkup.aspx

So, how would you go about setting the value to either true or false?

Because nobody would ever want to specificially set the value, it would be way more likely for them to want to 'toggle' it.

To be honest, it's hard to say whether that's entirely the fault of crappy documentation (though it is crappy), or the rather quirky and inconsistent nature of the various Office Object models which is heavily magnified once you start wrapping it in Interop stuff. I always found you needed to go to the underlying object documentation to clarify the wierdness in those sorts of cases.

There is a "Click to rate and give feedback" at the top right. Try that, maybe they read those....we hope =)

Seems clear enough to me...  you can set it to True, False (using the launguage's constants for true or false) or toggle it with WdConstants.WdToggle.

I'm not sure why you need the option to toggle it, though, seeing as toggling would be the same thing as View.ShowXMLMarkup = !(View.ShowXMLMarkup); if View.ShowXMLMarkup were implemented as a bool rather than an int32 (which they did to allow for the WdToggle option).  As is, you need a more complicated conditional to toggle...  so the WdToggle option becomes useful only because it's present.

I don't see a major problem with the documentation.

Looks easy to understand. {set; get;} This is way better than other documentation I have seen from other sources. A lot of them talks about the technology rather than helping the devs to use it.

magicalclick said:

Looks easy to understand. {set; get;} This is way better than other documentation I have seen from other sources. A lot of them talks about the technology rather than helping the devs to use it.

 

I'm replying to you, but I'm not neccessarily picking on your response

The issue is:  What is the integer value that would be expected for true or false?  I can assume that true is 1 and false is 0, but how do I know that?

In my code, I need to save the current value, and force it to true, so I need to know what this function thinks the int value of 'true' is, and since that isn't included, I have to just guess. 

The Word api is generally good about giving you constants that you can use to set the various values, but there is nothing on this page that gives me any clue what to use.

Turns out, that 1 is true and 0 is false and if there were only 2 options, that would be easy to guess, but since there is a 3rd possible value, assumptions are dangerous.