Generating a word document

[yasodhai]

Hi,
I developed a web application which contains a text box and a
command button. Once if i enter some text and then if i click the
command button, the contents in the textbox should be displayed in the
header and the footer of the word document. But this is to be done
without using the word object. Kindly let me know how to do this. Also
provide me with some documents so that i can do this.


Thanks and Regards,
Yasodhai

 

[Aidy]

http://www.aspose.com/Products/Aspose.Words

 

[Mark Rae]

http://www.aspose.com/Products/Aspose.Words

You beat me to it...

Looks like today is going to break the record for Office automation
problems...!

 

[Guest]

They got bit by the IWannaDoOfficeAutomationOnMyWebServer bug...
Doods, it really is Unsupported, not recommended, and if you take the time
to RTFM, you will not even WANT to try it.


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[Mark Rae]

They got bit by the IWannaDoOfficeAutomationOnMyWebServer bug...

Guess so...

Doods, it really is Unsupported, not recommended, and if you take the time
to RTFM, you will not even WANT to try it.

As I was responding to yet another of these poor folks earlier today, it
suddenly occurred to me *why* people think that they can do this until, that
is, it all stops working when they go into production...

As has been mentioned ad nauseum in here, server-side Office automation is
highly likely not to work.

However, and here's the thing, most ASP.NET developers currently develop
their apps with VS.NET 2005, IIS 5.1, SQL Server Developer Edition (maybe),
Office 2003 and IE...

.... ALL INSTALLED AND RUNNING LOCALLY ON THE SAME INSTANCE OF XP....

And in that particular scenario only, Office automation works perfectly!!!

Think about it - it would do, woudn't it!

That, my friends, is where this misconception comes from.

 

[Steve C. Orr [MCSD, MVP, CSM, ASP Insider]]

There are some good 3rd party products that would probably work for you.
Here are a couple that should work:
http://SteveOrr.net/reviews/AsposeWord.aspx
http://SteveOrr.net/reviews/OfficeWriter.aspx

VSTO should also work:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905533.aspx

 

[Mark Rae]

VSTO should also work:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905533.aspx

Does that allow Visual Studio to manipulate Office documents without
automation, then...?

 

[Steve C. Orr [MCSD, MVP, CSM, ASP Insider]]

I believe so, yes.

 

[Mark Rae]

I believe so, yes.

In which case, it could be a serious competitor to Aspose...

 

[Steve C. Orr [MCSD, MVP, CSM, ASP Insider]]

Yes, other than the price difference.

 

[Mark Rae]

Yes, other than the price difference.

 

[Mark Rae]

I believe so, yes.

Hmm - are you sure about this...?
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa718674.aspx

And all the code samples seem to refer to the Microsoft.Office.Interop
namespace...

 

[Steve C. Orr [MCSD, MVP, CSM, ASP Insider]]

I'm not sure which code samples you're talking about. The link you gave
doesn't really point to much.
I'm pretty sure it can use the XML file format to avoid interop.

 

[Mark Rae]

message
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...90-DC41-4792-8EF8-F4DE62FF1E81&displaylang=en
If it requires Office, what does it actually require it for...?

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hy7c6z9k(VS.80).aspx
"You can programmatically access the features of Microsoft Office
applications by writing code that targets an application's object model, a
process known as Automation."

Aspose doesn't require Office - that's the whole point...