ASP.NET with MS Word

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All, I develop web pages in Visual Studio 2005 in Visual Basic. I want to create reports in MS Word (text and several Tables also). How can do it. Can u Help me

any reason for Word File? not Crystal reports ? – Asad Feb 21 '10 at 05:26 — Asad, Feb 21 '10 at 05:26

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

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Don't use Office Automation on a server. I don't know why so many there seem to be so many tutorials on using automation from ASP.NET when Microsoft themselves recommend very strongly against it.

Don't go the HTML route either - it's a cheat, and while Word 2003 will happily open the files you send, Word 2007 will complain about the file extension being incorrect.

There's a previous question here on creating Word documents using C#, and several of the answers/links apply to ASP.NET. The two most common approaches are WordML (XML - Word 2003) and Office Open XML (Word 2007).

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answered Feb 21 '10 at 05:47

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For Word 2007+ I use DocX from codeplex ;). It is working well and it's pretty much a no brainer. – Nordes Nov 10 '11 at 15:42

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 22 '13 at 04:36

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Aspose.Words is another great option.

http://www.aspose.com/.net/word-component.aspx

answered Jun 22 '13 at 04:36

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 20 '12 at 16:23

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OfficeWriter is another third party tool specifically designed for scenarios like this:

http://www.officewriter.com

answered Jan 20 '12 at 16:23

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ASP.NET with MS Word

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