Open or preview a word document in a c# MDI windows form

[Gary]

Hi, there,

1. I would like to open a word document in a MDI environment. Every time, a new window outside my MDI poped out and show the word document. Is there a method I can use to specify the showing window? And how to?
2. Is there a way to preview the word document, other than load it fully?
3. How to extract all the characters in Unicode from this word document?

Thanks lot in advance!

Gary

[Arne Janning]

Gary wrote:

1. I would like to open a word document in a MDI environment.
Every time, a new window outside my MDI poped out and show the word document.
Is there a method I can use to specify the showing window? And how to?
Hi Gary,

you can host the Word-document on a Windows.Forms.F orm by using IE:

How To Use the WebBrowser Control to Open Office Documents with Visual
C# .NET
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=304662

or you can take an ActiveX-Control that hosts Office-documents and use
it through COM/interop.

SAMPLE: Visual C++ ActiveX Control for Hosting Office Documents in
Visual Basic or HTML
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=311765
2. Is there a way to preview the word document, other than load it fully?
The pre-built preview file is located in the compound document structure
of the word document which can be read by using the dsofile.dll which is
a COM-dll but it works through COM/interop:
[DSOleFile.Docum entProperties.T humbnail]

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=224351
3. How to extract all the characters in Unicode from this word document?

Perhaps by simply temporarily saving the Word-document in text-only format

doc.SaveAs("fil eName.txt, WdSaveFormat.wd FormatUnicodeTe xt, ...) and
reading it again by using StreamReader?

Cheers

Arne Janning