read .doc files

Monica I encountered this as well, honestly I'm not sure what the author did to get this shorthand namespace of a word interop in C# code, but one thing that is commonly used is to define a namespace alias like the following:

using Word = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word;

Also to add another way that you can try to read your Word files with C# code is this simple approach:

DocumentModel document = DocumentModel.Load("Document.doc", LoadOptions.DocDefault);

The code uses this C# DLL for word files.

MSDN is our friend. Whenever I am not sure what the class does, or what the class' method do, I always look it up there. You could get all your answers in a flash. Here's the link for the ApplicationClass, hope this helps. You could understand it more clearly from there.

Oh! And by the way, could you explain me things from that sample? Here it is:

openFileDialog1.ShowDialog(); - no problem
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.ApplicationClass wordApp = new ApplicationClass(); - (1) what we do here?
object file = Path.GetFullPath(openFileDialog1.FileName); - (2) what is Path? What we create here?
object nullobj = System.Reflection.Missing.Value; - (3) what is nullobj?

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document doc = wordApp.Documents.Open(
ref file, 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);

doc.ActiveWindow.Selection.WholeStory(); - (4) What is it? What is "ActiveWindow" and "WholeStory"?
doc.ActiveWindow.Selection.Copy(); IDataObject data = Clipboard.GetDataObject(); -(5) what is the "IDataObject"? And what we Get here?
txtFileContent.Text = data.GetData(DataFormats.Text).ToString();
doc.Close(ref nullobj, ref nullobj, ref nullobj);



Ok! If it possible, answer me to the (1) - (5) answers... I need to understand this ...

Ok. It works now) While I was waiting for your answer, I was trying to solve problem myself, and now it works. Really... There were some mistakes, and now everythings allright ;) ...

As I understand, two problems was because of new ver. of Word object model....

Thank you! :)

Hi,

I'm just here in the dark. Have you already tried the first link I posted? That's basically what you need to read a .doc file. What problem are you encountering now? What error did you encounter with "using Word;?"

Yea, I'm using firefox! :) ... Now I'll try your idea...

Well, I'll try to read your second link and then post again... But "using Word;" doesn't work now(((

Try declaring using Word; above your namespace. I'm using "Microsoft Word 10.0 Object Library" and everything seems ok. User doesn't need to do anything. Based on the first example, the program technically copies the contents of the word document into the clipboard, then reads the data from it. Try playing around with the second link I posted. It will help you.

Are you using Firefox? the editor is like an html editor, so you must include tags like < br > for a new line.

Hi,

You must add a reference first to the Microsoft Word Object Library. If you don't know how, Right click your project then select Add Reference. You'll find the Component under the COM tab.
Additional info: Word Object Model

You're english is ok. And if it's not, there's no need to be sorry about ^_^. It's expected here at the forum that we come from different places with different languages. :)

Cheers Mate,
Jan

Hi Artem,

Here's to get you started: How to read a doc file