display any kind of document in C#

Shanthala Udupa

Hello,

Is it possible to display or view word ,power point presentaion document in C# without microsoft office reference.

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Ganesan C5y ago
Accepted answer
If you want display the word, powerpoint document inside your application then you have to use ms office reference or other third party libraries. Otherwise not possible to display inside your application.

If you want to display/open the word, powerpoint documents in MS Office product (MS Word, MS Powerpoint) outside of application then use below.
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(@"Path of your document");
Kip Hackman4y ago
You can use LEADTOOLS Document SDK technology in your application.
https://www.leadtools.com/sdk/document/document-viewer-dotnet
You can leverage the DocumentViewer and DocumentFactory classes. The DocumentFactory class allows you to load a MS Office file without requiring the Microsoft Office interop assemblies and the DocumentViewer class allows you to view the loaded document.
There is a step-by-step tutorial of how to implement these two classes in a C# .NET WinForms application in the link below.
https://www.leadtools.com/help/sdk/tutorials/dotnet-winforms-display-files-in-the-document-viewer.html
Leon D5y ago
If you meant to display the documents in Windows Forms, you can use Spire.OfficeViewer library.

https://www.e-iceblue.com/Introduce/spire-office-viewer-net.html
Sachin Singh5y ago
use this
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(@"path to your document");