Using Word Interop Assembly

[rwiegel]

Hi All,

I have created an ASP.NET project and for one of the pages I want to
pop open a word template and fill in some info. In Visual Studio
2005, I added the COM reference Microsoft Office 11.0 Object library.
This adds a few dll's to the \bin directory. When I run the code from
visual studio, it works fine. When I copy it to the server (dll's and
all), I get the following error when I navigate to the page:

Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID
{00020906-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} failed due to the following
error: 80080005

Any ideas? I'm sure it has to do with how I added the assembly, but I
have very limited experience in this area. I have done similar
projects using windows forms and you can use 'Copy Local' to move the
assembly reference into the working directory. How can I do something
similar with ASP.NET?

Thanks,

Ryan

[Arnshea]

On Sep 20, 5:11 pm, [e-mail] wrote:

Hi All,

I have created an ASP.NET project and for one of the pages I want to
pop open a word template and fill in some info. In Visual Studio
2005, I added the COM reference Microsoft Office 11.0 Object library.
This adds a few dll's to the \bin directory. When I run the code from
visual studio, it works fine. When I copy it to the server (dll's and
all), I get the following error when I navigate to the page:

Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID
{00020906-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} failed due to the following
error: 80080005

Any ideas? I'm sure it has to do with how I added the assembly, but I
have very limited experience in this area. I have done similar
projects using windows forms and you can use 'Copy Local' to move the
assembly reference into the working directory. How can I do something
similar with ASP.NET?

Thanks,

Ryan

The COM object (in this case, Word) needs to be installed on the
server. You can do this by installing Word/Office on the server.

This will work but I think they're encouraging people to use the
PIAs...

[rwiegel]

Well, since office is already on the server and it still doesn't work,
I think the message is pretty clear. I will take Mark's suggestion
and not do it that way.

Thank you both for your replies.

Does anybody know of anything any cheaper than Aprose? $900 for one
customer site seems awfully steep. And I don't have enough customers
requesting this to amke it worth buying the OEM.

[Mark Rae [MVP]]

<rw*****@iastate.eduwrote in message
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Does anybody know of anything any cheaper than Aprose?

No.

What are your actual requirements for this? There are probably other ways of
doing things...
--
Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

[rwiegel]

The user is requesting a shipment from this company. The Word doc (or
PDF) is basically going to be a receipt with the information from the
shipment request. So, the receipt is a template that will get some
blanks filled in.

[Mark Rae [MVP]]

"Nathan" <na*****@vinsolutions.comwrote in message
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Nathan,

This is kind of a random suggestion

I think you're replying to the wrong post...

You also might check out using a third party utility like Aspose

Yes indeed - check out my posts in the rest of this thread (and countless
others) on the use server-side Office automation...
--
Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

[rwiegel]

Mark, thanks a lot. You were a big help.

-Ryan

[Nick]

"Mark Rae [MVP]" <ma**@markNOSPAMrae.netwrote in message
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>
What are your actual requirements for this? There are probably other ways
of doing things...

I need to replace a DCOM application running on Windows 2003. It is using
Word for mailmerge with SQL data to create a file for the client
application. How to do this better?