How can show a doc file on the aspx page

Aditya Chauhan

Hello Experts,
I am little bit confuse for work on it.
I have a document file path in database and having files in related folders
and i want to just show the doc file on the aspx page which path is come from the database.
now i have tried many ways to use it
1:Show in the Iframe
{
iframe1.Attributes["src"]="path";
//but this is not work
}
2: i am not use it in html5 with object and datasource this is not getting file path from c#
3:i have a tried another solution for it.it is complex for me
but i tried
in this step i am trying to convert doc file to html then it show in the webpage with iframe
may be it is work
but when i give the path from database then this is not working

can any one suggest to solve it how can i come from it

Note:* how can i show the documents files on the webpage when path come from the database?

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Rahul Prasad11y ago
If you only concern how to convert .doc/.docx file to html, then this article might be help: Convert Word to HTML in C#, VB.NET

Sample code:

//Create word document
Document document = new Document();
document.LoadFromFile(@"..\wordtohtml.doc");
//Save doc file to html
document.SaveToFile("toHTML.html", FileFormat.Html);
WordDocViewer("toHTML.html");
Manoj Bhoir11y ago
Hi,

If you are using Microsoft.Office.Interop in your application.

Please ensure that Microsoft Office and it's required components are installed on your server.

Check this link it will help you :

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14527305/could-not-load-file-or-assembly-microsoft-office-interop-excel-version-14-0-0
Aditya Chauhan11y ago
I have done my job on local host this is work f9 but on the server this show the error pls suggest me why this come Could not load file or assembly 'office, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
Upendra Pratap Shahi11y ago
Do you have using Server.MapPath() for getting path

use like this
string DocumentPath="test.doc";
string dateupdate="02062015";
String sHtmlCopyPath = HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~") + "\\TestPages\\FileBackup\\Backup\\Log\\" + dateupdate;
bool exists = System.IO.Directory.Exists(sHtmlCopyPath);
if (!exists)
System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(sHtmlCopyPath);
if (System.IO.File.Exists(sHtmlCopyPath + "/" +DocumentPath))
//work for file..

look this code
Aditya Chauhan11y ago
i have attach aspx.cs file but i dont know why this is not visible
Manoj Bhoir11y ago
Hi Aditya,

Is it possible to you to post your code snippet?
Aditya Chauhan11y ago
Sorry, we couldn’t find your file. Is it possible it was moved, renamed or deleted?
("C:\...\435178572Ankit kumar -Resume...")
this show the error
but my path is
~/Resume_File/435178572Ankit kumar -Resume.doc"

why this go in the c drive i dont know
Aditya Chauhan11y ago
ya Upendra Pratap Shahi i try but in this case this show the error in the file path
file not found
no prob i am getting a another way to solve it
may be its working
Upendra Pratap Shahi11y ago
Hello @Aditya,

R u trying my suggestion?
Aditya Chauhan11y ago
Mr Manoj I will Provide You All snapshots of all the errors soon
Manoj Bhoir11y ago
Hi aditya,

Please try to debug your code and ensure that code you used to retrieve path from database is working properly. Also ensure that actual document should exist at the same path.
Aditya Chauhan11y ago
I try this way to show
Aditya Chauhan11y ago
Mr Manoj This show The Error Some Path From C Drive but why
i am not able to understand it
Upendra Pratap Shahi11y ago
Hello @Aditya,

use like this-

WebClient client = new WebClient();
Byte[] buffer = client.DownloadData(filepath);
Response.ContentType = "application/msword";
Response.AddHeader("content-length", buffer.Length.ToString());
Response.BinaryWrite(buffer);

Kindly read below article-

http://www.aspsnippets.com/Articles/Display-Word-document-on-web-page-in-ASP.Net.aspx

http://www.devasp.net/net/articles/display/1359.html

http://www.dotnetfunda.com/forums/show/3894/show-a-word-document-content-in-aspnet-page

Kindly marked the answer as Accepted Answer if helpful for better discussion.
Manoj Bhoir11y ago
Why it's not working. What error exactly you are getting. As you said you are taking path from database but your documents are stored in respected directory. Their might be possibility that file you are searching to read is not present at that particular location. Try to add try catch block and post what error/ exception you are getting.
Aditya Chauhan11y ago
But when I give the path from the database then it is not working
:(
Manoj Bhoir11y ago
Hi Aditya,

You can use Microsoft.Office.Interop to display Word Document Contents in your ASPX page.

Please see these article
Reading Ms Word Document Display in the Page in ASP.NET
Display Word document on web page in ASP.Net

Or you can simply use ASP.NET Document Viewer
Check this link :
ASP.NET Document Viewer – Display PDF, Word, Excel & 50+ Other Types of Document

Also, I hope you realize that you cannot present a Word document on a Web page as is. This is proprietary format, not standardized with W3, so it does not really belongs on the Web. In real life though, there are a number of applications working with Word documents and even provide some editing capabilities (one typical example: job search sites). But in this case, everything is done in the form of HTML or XML; word documents are converted into HTML for presentation and editing and saved as Word by converting from HTML or XML.