Word automation on IIS

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Hi,

I created a web application in which I am generating a ms-word document using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word dll.
The application is running fine in the visual studio but when I tried to run on IIS 5.0 through virtual directory then its giving the following error -

Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {000209FF-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} failed due to the following error: 80070005.

In my application I have taken reference of Microsoft Word 12.0 Object Library, but its coming as Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word dll, this interop dll is just a wrapper of the actual word COM dll.
But I have to register the actual word COM dll. so my problem is to find -

1) The path of the original word dll(COM)
2) How to register this dll, either using regsvr32 or to register on IIS.

OR there will be any other solution.
I have gone through many forums but did'nt get any solution.

If you have any idea/suggestion on COM Word components please revert me back.

Many Thanks,

Posted 27-Dec-10 19:42pm

ViniGupta

Updated 27-Dec-10 20:18pm

Dalek Dave

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Manfred Rudolf Bihy · Answer 1 · 2010-12-27T21:58:00

The easiest way I see it, would be to have MS Word installed on the server running your IIS. I advise you though to put the Word <--> COM part in a separate process as a service to avoid having to restart IIS every now and then (see Caveat).

Caveat: I was involved in a project 1999 that did MS Word COM interop (from java and a servlet based application) and ran into the problem that the application server had to restarted every now and then because there was a memory leak, that is MS Word or COM didn't realease all
resources eventhough we explicitely cleaned everything up.

Cheers,

Manfred