Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word timout

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I have been using using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word in my webserver (yes, i know it is not recommended).

When I ran it on my machine, it runs fine, but when running on the server I get a timeout on the following line:
Documents.Open //when trying to open the file.

Is there something I'm missing? Is there a better way to edit a Word document within web servers/websites? (I can't create a new one using string builder or outputting into file; I need to edit an existing one that sits on the server.)

Any input will be appreciated as I'm stuck on this for few days already...

Posted 20-Feb-11 21:43pm

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Ekvilibrium · Answer 1 · 2011-02-26T00:21:00

You can use HtmlTextWriter on webpage for create Word/Excel document and post edit...

For example: export Grid on webpage to Word

public static void ExportToWord(System.Web.UI.Page p, DataGrid grdGridView, string fileName)
{
  p.Response.Clear();
  p.Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", string.Format("attachment;filename={0}.doc", fileName));
  p.Response.Charset = "";
  p.Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.doc";
  StringWriter stringWrite = new StringWriter();
  HtmlTextWriter htmlWrite = new HtmlTextWriter(stringWrite);
  myGridView.RenderControl(htmlWrite);
  p.Response.Write(stringWrite.ToString());
  p.Response.End();
}

Espen Harlinn · Answer 2 · 2011-02-26T00:37:00

You can take a look at:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_office_word/archive/2009/10/26/introducing-word-automation-services.aspx[^]
and
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_office_word/archive/2009/09/09/co-authoring-in-word-2010.aspx[^]

Full authoring capabilities doesn't come cheap, but if you do the math:
(hours required to implement solution) x (hourly rate)

You can probably justify buying a sharepoint server license ...

Regards
Espen Harlinn

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