Uploading MS Word Documents

[GaryDean]

I'm developing an app to upload MS word documents where I will store them in
a varbinary to do full text searching on.

My first question is: How can I verify that the uploaded file is a valid MS
Word Document
second question: Is there a way to convert it to plain text?

Is there a set of methods that deal with office documents?

 

[Mark Rae [MVP]]

My first question is: How can I verify that the uploaded file is a valid
MS Word Document

You can check its MIME type:

if(MyFileInputControl.PostedFile.ContentType != "application/msword")
{
// do something...
}

second question: Is there a way to convert it to plain text?

Not natively...

Is there a set of methods that deal with office documents?

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

 

[Walter Wang [MSFT]]

Hi Gary,

I agree with Mark, for ASP.NET Web Application, you will have to use some
third party tool to convert a Word document to plain text since there's no
built-in support for Office documents in .NET Framework and Office
automation at server-side is not supported:

#Considerations for server-side Automation of Office
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/257757

Regards,
Walter Wang ([email protected], remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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