Reading Ms Word Document Display in the Page in ASP.NET

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rerohit rerohit6y ago
Hi by this i can read only first page of word file now what to do to read all pages with image attached in wordtable
Sandip Patil8y ago
Hi kailash, i would like to Upload Resume and Read its Data like, name, Contact no, Email Address etc and Stored those filed into DB, how to Do it, please let me know or please send the email on [email protected], thanks and Regards Sandip Patil
srinivas prabhu9y ago
I want to display word document as it is
Former member11y ago
install microsoft office in your server
Jisu Sarkar11y ago
plese tell me how to fix it
Jisu Sarkar11y ago
i have use your code but ApplicationClass is not working its showing the following errorError 3 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.ApplicationClass' does not contain a definition for 'Documents' and no extension method 'Documents' accepting a first argument of type 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.ApplicationClass' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)Error 4 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.ApplicationClass' does not contain a definition for 'Documents' and no extension method 'Documents' accepting a first argument of type 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.ApplicationClass' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) Error 5 Interop type 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.ApplicationClass' cannot be embedded. Use the applicable interface instead. Error 6 Interop type 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.ApplicationClass' cannot be embedded. Use the applicable interface instead.
ahmad sawalha12y ago
I tired this method, but when I published the site to the server it gave an error. the Microsoft.Office.Interop can't be shared. So I have to user OpenXml instead, but it couldn't read doc files its for docx only, Any Idea?
adil khan12y ago
I want to check word exists or not in word file please help me
Surya Venkatesan12y ago
I tried this coding. but it shows an error "no overload for method open takes 12 arguments"
Surya Venkatesan12y ago
no overload for method open takes 12 arguments in asp.net
Priti Kumari13y ago
i want to display formatted text in textbox.please help me.....thanks for your help
jamal jamal13y ago
Excellent This way, retrieve only text content, but how we can also display images that are inside word document ? Thanks for your help
hien ld13y ago
thank for share
- Former member13y ago
  thanks

Introduction

This article contains description about how Word Document can be read and displayed in the screen using asp.net C#. reading Word document is very easy task , just have to follow some steps to get your task done. You have to follow only three steps are give bellow.

Steps

Browse and read word document file from client machine
Save it on the server
Read file from server and display on the screen

Browse and Read Word Document from client machine

To browse I did nothing, just I used the browse or file up loader control available in the ASP.NET server side controls list, the up loader controls in build asp.net controls helps to caching file information on the page .

Save it on the server and Read file from server and display on the screen

After browsing word document file don't refresh your page by any of the control, because in the every refresh the page loses his information and control information. Before the page's post back, save the browsed word document in the server. To save and view the word document I have take the help button click event and Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word dll.

FileUpload1.SaveAs(Server.MapPath(FileUpload1.FileName));
object filename = Server.MapPath(FileUpload1.FileName);

The server control FileUplod's saveas function helps to save file in the server and Server.MapPath function is used to map the path of the server.

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.ApplicationClass AC = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.ApplicationClass();

Above code create a object of application class which helps to open or create a word document. This class belongs Microsoft.Office.Interop name space.

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document doc = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document();

Above code create the object of document class which keeps word content

doc = AC.Documents.Open(ref filename, ref missing, ref readOnly, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref isVisible);
TextBox1.Text = doc.Content.Text;

above code opens the document that you have browsed set the content of the word document in to the textbox text.

HTML Code

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server" Height="722px" Width="100%"
TextMode="MultiLine"></asp:TextBox>
</div>
<div>
<asp:FileUpload ID="FileUpload1" runat="server" BorderStyle="Double"
Width="549px" /> <asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Button"
onclick="Button1_Click" />
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>

C# Code

protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.ApplicationClass AC = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.ApplicationClass();
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document doc = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document();
object readOnly = false;
object isVisible = true;
object missing = System.Reflection.Missing.Value;
try
{
doc = AC.Documents.Open(ref filename, ref missing, ref readOnly, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref isVisible);
TextBox1.Text = doc.Content.Text;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show("ERROR: " + ex.Message);
}
finally
{
doc.Close(ref missing, ref missing, ref missing);
}
}

Summary

Above discussion we know how to read word document taking help of Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word