embed word into vb.net

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how can i embed Microsoft word in vb.net? i want the file to open in vb.net itself and modifications can be done also.
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Posted 13-Feb-12 8:23am

DiiR

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PeiWHoward 17-Jul-17 6:38am

DiiR you may want to check out this VB.NET library for Word, it can enable you to easily create your own Word editor, as demonstrated here.

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Christian Graus · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-13T08:26:00

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No. Microsoft wants you to use Word. SyncFusion has some controls you can buy to do this, I believe, but Word itself does not offer this. You can write VB.NET code to read and write Word docs, but not to show an editor.

Posted 13-Feb-12 8:26am

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DiiR 13-Feb-12 14:30pm

while doing some research i found something called Edraw office viewer which can be added as reference, but it is not showing in my toolbox..
http://www.edrawsoft.com/embed-word-vbnet.php
thnx..

Christian Graus 13-Feb-12 14:33pm

OK, well, a third party solution is always possible ( I did mention SyncFusion ). If you can't get it to work, you need to talk to the vendor of that component, though. I don't know.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 13-Feb-12 14:54pm

That is true of course, my 5.

I must say I'm skeptical about the whole idea of using Word or anything like that in the application. If looks like an attempt like bringing non-developer's habits (using Office is one of then) into programming. That's why developing world is contaminated by stupid and nearly useless projects like processing data in Excel or using it as a database or a presentation tool.

I offer some alternative though, please see.
--SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-13T08:50:00

As Christian explained, Word is not designed to be embedded in application.

One remote possibility is to run Word in a separate process, make its windows a child windows of some control of your application and use Office automation to control it. This solution would depend on Word installation and would be so ugly and awkward in implementation that I don't want to discuss it any longer.

You have much better chances to embed OpenOffice with is Open Source and offers roughly Word functionality (and can work with all format of Word document). Please see this short article:

http://opendocument4all.com/content/view/22/39/[^].

See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org[^],
http://www.openoffice.org/[^].

[EDIT, based on follow-up discussion]

All those options with near-Word capabilities are too hard to implement, for miserable benefits, in practice.
Even RichTextBox is more or less awkward.

This this is the best alternative for rich format presentation: a renderer of HTML. This CodeProject work is done just for System.Windows.Forms and it's just perfect:

A Professional HTML Renderer You Will Use[^].

Not only this is good in usability and HTML expressive power, it add a lot of features such as links to embedded resources (special custom URI schema), which is very important for embedded renderer.

—SA