how to create a browse preview button

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Hi Actually i am new in vb.net so i need some help
In My application i need a button for browse by which we can browse any type of file
then preview it by which we can see what file we had browse (and open it according to file extension as doc on office and pdf in adobe reader etc)
any suggestion pls
thnx in advance :)

Posted 3-Feb-13 21:35pm

Vishal Pand3y

Updated 3-Feb-13 23:11pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 4-Feb-13 3:38am

What is "browse preview"? what is "browse a file"? Is it the same as "file preview"?
"Any file" sounds like a big exaggeration... what would it possibly mean?
—SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2013-02-03T21:41:00

Office documents are proprietary (even though later versions are standardized and 3rd-party products work with them, but it's not enough for Web standardization where everything should work for all platforms), so you cannot present them in a Web application directly.

However, you can represent preview as HTML imitation. For some ideas, please see my past answers:
Convert Office-Documents to PDF without interop[^],
Hi how can i display word file in windows application using c#.net[^],
Read a word file without using Interop.word dll...Do not want to install word in IIS..[^].

—SA