Alternative Solutions for Microsoft.Interop.Word

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  1. I have an issue with a webapplication I am working on which requires an alternative solution, any ideas are welcome. The conceptwas for thewebsiteto be easily maintained by non-tech people. So we wanted to implement C#.Net solution of Microsoft.Interop.Word class which contains functionality to work with word documents. The process is as follows: Document specialist edits product documentation, new document gets published, website reads thedocument and saves as HTML, website shows HTML page in an IFrame. This way anytime a product document changed there would be no need to change code or do anything with the site to change the content, and so non-programmers could make the changes. This could all easily be done with a database and some web forms, but we wanted to go a step further with the word document functionality. Unfortunatly we cannot do this from a hosting servicebecause oflicense restrictionshaving Office installed on a server. One alternative would have been to use Office Web Components 11, but I haven't been able to find any C# referenceson saving a word document as HTML. Another alternative I thought of was a simplegui app which would convert the word doc to html then upload it to the proper folder on the remote host. If anyone knows how I could use OWC 11 or an alternative solution any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.
     
  2. Bruce

    Bruce DiscountASP.NET Staff

    i couldn't find much reference to OWC11 as well.


    I also dug around for any free component that don't require installation but couldn't find anything reasonablely priced.


    I have a suggestion, why don't you just link to the .doc file in your page. Most browsers should open word document fine.


    Bruce

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