Display a word document in a Windows program without Word

[Mufasa]

I need to write a windows program in C# that will display a word document on
the screen without having Word loaded on the machine.

How can I do this?

TIA - J.

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:52:59 -0400
"Mufasa" <[e-mail]:

I need to write a windows program in C# that will display a word
document on the screen without having Word loaded on the machine.

How can I do this?

If you do not have Word installed on the machine, and the program must
be one of your own creation, then you'll have to read the DOC format
and render it just like MS Word or MS Word Viewer does. There is open
source software that you can study (in other languages) to see how it
is done; you can even look at the source code to OpenOffice.org, which,
IIRC, is done in C++.

Would not the free Word Viewer do what you need, though?

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

--- Mike

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My sigfile ran away and is on hiatus.

[Mufasa]

I will be calling this from a program and my understanding is that when you
use the viewer it automatically opens the document in another window. I want
to be able to have it as part of the window I already have open.

J.

"Michael B. Trausch" <mi**@trausch.uswrote in message
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On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:52:59 -0400
"Mufasa" <[e-mail]:

>I need to write a windows program in C# that will display a word
document on the screen without having Word loaded on the machine.

How can I do this?

If you do not have Word installed on the machine, and the program must
be one of your own creation, then you'll have to read the DOC format
and render it just like MS Word or MS Word Viewer does. There is open
source software that you can study (in other languages) to see how it
is done; you can even look at the source code to OpenOffice.org, which,
IIRC, is done in C++.

Would not the free Word Viewer do what you need, though?

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

--- Mike

--
My sigfile ran away and is on hiatus.

[Mel Weaver]

You will need to use a third party component such as Aspose ,
http://www.aspose.com/, if you want it embeded in your form.
"Mufasa" <[e-mail] in message
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>I will be calling this from a program and my understanding is that when you
use the viewer it automatically opens the document in another window. I
want to be able to have it as part of the window I already have open.

J.

"Michael B. Trausch" <mi**@trausch.uswrote in message
news:20081014142835.5755b22e@zest...

>On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:52:59 -0400
"Mufasa" <[e-mail]:

>>I need to write a windows program in C# that will display a word
document on the screen without having Word loaded on the machine.

How can I do this?

If you do not have Word installed on the machine, and the program must
be one of your own creation, then you'll have to read the DOC format
and render it just like MS Word or MS Word Viewer does. There is open
source software that you can study (in other languages) to see how it
is done; you can even look at the source code to OpenOffice.org, which,
IIRC, is done in C++.

Would not the free Word Viewer do what you need, though?

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

--- Mike

--
My sigfile ran away and is on hiatus.