mail merge?

[phil2phil]

hi,
i wanted to know if it's possible to build an asp.net mail to automate
mail merge with ms word documents. i already have the ms word document
created with the merge fields, currently we go through the mail merge
wizard to select a datasource to merge it with, but i wanted to create
a page with buttons, selecting a certain button would cause the
document to open using a certain datasource, everything would be merged
and ready. is this possible? i've seen some sample code, but it's
always creating the ms word document in the code, i don't need that
it's already created, just a way to launch it from a button and have it
merge to a datasource, datasource would change time to time so that i
can control through web.config when needed.
thanks.

 

[Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]]

This product makes it pretty easy:
http://SteveOrr.net/reviews/AsposeWord.aspx

 

[phil2phil]

Thanks for the response! But is there a way to do it for free ?

 

[tdavisjr]

Of course there is a way to do it for free. All you have to do is write
it yourself using the Word Object Model which is FREE-ly avaliable.

 

[Paul Henderson]

i wanted to know if it's possible to build an asp.net mail to automate

mail merge with ms word documents

You could probably open the document using Word interop - import
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word, create an Application, load the
Document, and then use its MailMerge property to do whatever you want.

[Note that Microsoft doesn't really recommend doing stuff with Office
interop on a server, though...]