Opening a word document using asp.net with c#

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how to open the word document in c# I have tried the code as System.Diagnostics.Process.Start('my.docx'); Please help

Neboja · Answer

Browsers usually do not support rendering a doc, docx file formats and for these unsupported renderings browsers will simply download them. That's the default behaviour of web browsers. Text and image files are supported by all and also modern browsers now have a build in pdf viewers so they are supported as well. Anyway to display your file in new tab a web browser needs to be able to render it, so what I do is I process the DOCX files in .NET in order to get a compatible file type for browser rendering. For example here is an article about how you can achieve a DOCX to HTML conversion with C# code and after that you can easily display the previous DOCX content, now in HTML format, in browser.

sakthi eswar · Answer

Hi this code is working fine but instead of opening a docx file in new tab its downloading the file, please can u tell me how to open the docx files in new tab. pdf, text , image files are opening in new tab fine but docx files only not opening in new tab.

Ashish Shukla · Answer

You can use the below code for reading the contents of the word document byte[] bytes; using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(htmlFilePath.ToString(), FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read)) { BinaryReader reader = new BinaryReader(fs); bytes = reader.ReadBytes((int)fs.Length); fs.Close(); } and for displaying the output to the browser you can use Response.ContentType = "application/msword"; Response.BinaryWrite(bytes); Response.Flush();

Ashutosh Chaturvedi · Answer

step 1. Create a console application. step 2. In solution explorer right click on References-->add references-->in the .NET tab search for Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word step 3. add following namespace as using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word step 4. create existing word document,example codebelow uses an existing document at C:\TestDoc.docx. step 5. Insert following code. Application ap = new Application(); try { Document doc = ap.Documents.Open( @"C:\TestDoc.docx", ReadOnly: false, Visible: false ); doc.Activate(); Selection sel = ap.Selection; if ( sel != null ) { switch ( sel.Type ) { case WdSelectionType.wdSelectionIP: sel.TypeText( DateTime.Now.ToString() ); sel.TypeParagraph(); break; default: Console.WriteLine( "Selection type not handled; no writing done" ); break; } // Remove all meta data. doc.RemoveDocumentInformation( WdRemoveDocInfoType.wdRDIAll ); ap.Documents.Save( NoPrompt: true, OriginalFormat: true ); } else { Console.WriteLine( "Unable to acquire Selection...no writing to document done.." ); } ap.Documents.Close( SaveChanges: false, OriginalFormat: false, RouteDocument: false ); } catch ( Exception ex ) { Console.WriteLine( "Exception Caught: " + ex.Message ); // Could be that the document is already open (/) or Word is in Memory(?) } finally { // Ambiguity between method 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word._Application.Quit(ref object, ref object, ref object)' and non-method 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.ApplicationEvents4_Event.Quit'. Using method group. // ap.Quit( SaveChanges: false, OriginalFormat: false, RouteDocument: false ); ( (_Application)ap ).Quit( SaveChanges: false, OriginalFormat: false, RouteDocument: false ); System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject( ap ); }

Opening a word document using asp.net with c#

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