Creating and opening Microsoft Word document from VB.NET

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  praveen chauhan15y agoPosted Aug 6, 2011, 6:24 AM

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  Sue Browne15y agoPosted Apr 26, 2011, 4:00 PM

  I followed the instructions above exactly, but the code doesn't work.I receive the error Word.ApplicationClass' is not defined. Please help!
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    Sue Browne15y agoPosted Apr 28, 2011, 8:56 AM

    Hi Mike: Thank you for your reply. I'm sorry I was so short on details. I am using Visual Web Developer 2008 (Express Edition) and I have a feeling it is not working correctly. I added a reference to the COM Microsoft Word 12.0 Object Library (9.0 was not available). I added the 'Import Namespace="Microsoft.Interop.Word"' at the top of the web-page. I have the vb.net code and the asp.net controls all in one web-page with the vb.net inside the <script> tags. Unfortunately, it tells me that the Word.ApplicationClass is not defined. I've tried several different code samples from the web but they did not work either. I'm just very frustrated at this point. I appreciate your help.
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    Mike Gold15y agoPosted Apr 27, 2011, 12:44 AM

    Hi Sue, the implementation to talk to word has changed in 2010. If I get a chance, I'll rewrite the article for 2010. but i've been pretty swamped lately. the good news, it is much easier in VS2010. You don't need so many paramaters anymore, and you don't need to worry about coercing types, the types are automatically mapped through the magic of the DLR!
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  Humita Mix15y agoPosted Jan 24, 2011, 4:50 PM

  Hi Very interesting, can I do it, using Wordpad instead of Word? Which library can I use Regards,
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  satheesh kumar16y agoPosted Oct 14, 2010, 2:46 AM

  this article information was very useful thank u .... i want to draw different charts in excel using vb.net ..if we click button it have create excel and have to show file with charts... c'd u help me...?
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  Popi Popio16y agoPosted Sep 14, 2010, 10:31 PM

  thank you for your's articles, It's very nice ... thanx again all best :)
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  vaibhav fegade16y agoPosted Sep 13, 2010, 9:35 AM

  Hi , this word document is opening separately. I want to open this eord document inside same windows form. how should i do this? please help me/.....
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  aishu b16y agoeditedPosted Sep 1, 2010, 3:19 AMEdited Sep 1, 2010, 3:39 AM

  HOW SHOUL I CREATE TABLES IN VB.NET FOR MS WORD .ITS IN WINDOW FORM ITSELF NOT IN WORD DOCUMENT.I DON WANT TO OPEN WORD FROM VB. SEND ME SOLUTION SOON THANKS & REGARDS, AISHU
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  samane vn16y agoPosted Aug 2, 2010, 4:52 PM

  hi i use this code in asp.net web apllication for open a doc file from server on client but it cant open and don't erase any error please help me ApplicationClass oApplicationClass = new ApplicationClass(); DocumentClass D = new DocumentClass(); object nullobj = System.Reflection.Missing.Value; oApplicationClass .Documents.Open(ref fileName, ref nullobj, ref nullobj, ref nullobj, ref nullobj, ref nullobj, ref nullobj, ref nullobj, ref nullobj, ref nullobj, ref nullobj, ref nullobj, ref nullobj, ref nullobj, ref nullobj, ref nullobj);
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  Ajay Pradhan16y agoPosted Jul 21, 2010, 1:14 AM

  how to open ms word by default in iframe in asp.net c#
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  harry peter16y agoPosted Jul 20, 2010, 2:24 AM

  nice article,Microsoft does not recommend using Office application in server-side scenarios. There are great 3rd party .net word document components in the market that do the same job (or even better). From a comparison testing I performed about a year ago Spire.Doc for .NET is the best. more details, http://www.e-iceblue.com/Introduce/word-for-net-introduce.html maybe help to every.
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    harry peter16y agoPosted Jul 30, 2010, 8:05 PM

    Thank you for the reminder, I hope you write more good articles.
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    Mike Gold16y agoPosted Jul 20, 2010, 10:00 PM

    This isn't really a server side scenario :-). The article covers automation on the client side, but thanks for sharing the info.
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  mohamoud eid16y agoPosted Jun 17, 2010, 4:56 PM

  Mohamoud Dear sir can you help me were i can download vb.net 2010 [email protected]
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  Marc Matthys16y agoeditedPosted Feb 17, 2010, 1:20 PMEdited Feb 19, 2010, 9:04 AM

  Thanks for the quick response Mike. However this is not what I'm really looking for. The objective is to store small word documents (a few pages with text and graphs/pictures per doc only) on the c-drive. The vb.net application should allow the user to see the content of a word document (in read only) without opening Word. Solution: in my case I tested several possibilities and the best one is to save the Word files as *.RTF and read them into a Rich Textbox. In order to use a "Try & Catch" I used the Word.Application. Not completely correct but it works now. Dim StreamToDisplay As StreamReader Dim word As New Word.Application Dim doc As Word.Document StreamToDisplay = New StreamReader("C:\Info\Docs\Manual.rtf") Try doc = word.Documents.Open("C:\Info\Docs\Manual.rtf") Catch ex As Exception MessageBox.Show("Error accessing RTF document") End Try rtbARR_REG.Rtf = StreamToDisplay.ReadToEnd StreamToDisplay.Close() rtbARR_REG.Select(0, 0) Best regards and thx again
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  sepide khoshnood16y agoPosted Jan 26, 2010, 2:05 AM

  hi darling how can i add a picturev in a document by wordfromdotnet? how can i write a text or add a pic to a certain position
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  sepide khoshnood16y agoPosted Jan 26, 2010, 2:03 AM

  hi darling how can i add a picturev in a document by wordfromdotnet? how can i write a text or add a pic to a certain position
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  chauhan yogesh16y agoPosted Dec 11, 2009, 11:41 PM

  its a very good, excellent solution...... I thanks a lot........
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  arindam ghosh17y agoPosted Nov 21, 2009, 3:39 PM

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  Renoald Tang17y agoPosted Sep 13, 2009, 1:38 PM

  it is possible read the character or content from word by using vb? since the format word are not same with txt files.
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  Marcele Barros17y agoPosted Aug 27, 2009, 8:57 AM

  Thanks for help!
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  mahdi17y agoPosted Jul 2, 2009, 7:36 AM

  How can I open a word doc from vb.net without using open dialog box (by code only)
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  nguyen thanh binh17y agoPosted May 9, 2009, 8:10 AM

  I want to open ms word 2003 in vb.net form. I found an example like that. But it's C# Application. Can U help me?
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  Doug Batchelor18y agoPosted Feb 25, 2008, 11:10 AM

  Mike, Is it possible to read the contents of Word docs stored as images in sql2005 without opening word on the client side. I need to be able to read the text, highlight keywords with html tags and then spit the result out to an html page. I tried regular expression by reading the doc into a byte array and then converting to a string, but the structure of word made the result very messay. Appreciate any help you can give me.
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  Scott Blackburn18y agoPosted Jan 24, 2008, 5:35 PM

  Good Job Mike... This was very benificial to me and worked just fine.... The thing that I need now is a way to pass parms or values to the word document (like mail merge)... Do you have a code snippet that will do that? Thanks again Mike, -scott
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  Scott Blackburn18y agoPosted Jan 24, 2008, 5:34 PM

  Good Job Mike... This was very benificial to me and worked just fine.... The thing that I need now is a way to pass parms or values to the word document (like mail merge)... Do you have a code snippet that will do that? Thanks again Mike, -scott
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  Divyesh Doshi19y agoPosted Jul 31, 2007, 2:37 AM

  Can i use Windows XP 's wod Reference for Windows 2000's word Reference??
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  WILLY VERSLYPPE19y agoPosted Jun 20, 2007, 5:23 PM

  Is it possible with frames or have I to use the ASCII character codes chart 2 with the graphic characters : chr(176)...chr(223) ? I will be very greatfull if you can help me. Thanks
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  Alice19y agoPosted Jun 12, 2007, 1:08 PM

  This works fantastic the first time through. If I click the button to open a second document I get the following error: RPC Server is unavailable. Exception from HRESULT: 0x800706BA Did I miss a piece of configuration or am I not closing/ending some object/process that needs closing? I'd appreciate any insight you have on this. Thanks!
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  John Mixon19y agoeditedPosted Jun 8, 2007, 11:17 AMEdited Jun 8, 2007, 11:17 AM

  Your solution is great. What a nice use of Reflection! You just saved me a huge headache. Regards, jmixon