How to embed a Word Document in Win Form?

Question

Hi There I am facing a problem related to embedding of MS Word Document in Vb.Net. I will have to allow my user to use MS Word document in full fledged fashion. I will be having some sort of container on my Win Form where a new MS Word document will be available then user will do some sort of editing on that document or any operation provided by Word that is he can do mail merging or formatting etc then user will save the changes. This word document should occupy the defined area on Win form. Pl. note I am not seeking the invokation of separate exe of word rather than i am looking for some sort of embedding within a container in Win Form. I know how to do the same in VB 6.0 but i am not able to do the same in Vb.Net. I have tried to use AxWebBrowser control but it is also have some limitations. If anyone know how to achieve it? Thanx n Regds Bob

nav077 · Answer

Hi Mahesh Sorry for late reply. Hey can u send me Mike Gold's mail id or suggest me how to communicate him? Your help is really impressive. Thanx

Mahesh Chand · Answer

Bob I have not worked much in VB.NET but have an idea of OLE container. Mike Gold has done a fair amout of work on Office Interop from .NET. Try to contact him and see if he has an answer for ya.

nav077 · Answer

Hi Mahesh Thanx a lot for ur reply! Hey i have gone through those articles..but no gain..see i am facing the problem how to decide a container for MS Word? I am able to manipulate and execute various functionality exposed by word in .net but i am not able to find out a container on my win form which will display word application in predefined area. If U have ever worked on VB6.0 then there was a container control for this purpose named as OLE container. A similar one in .net is AxWebBrowser but with limited features. AxWebbrowser control is not giving me desired functionality! Thanx again!

Mahesh Chand · Answer

Did you see the Office Interoperability section of C# Corner? There are some articles on it.