How to view office document through browser

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Hi

i want to develop asp application that view the any office document
and i used

C#

Response.ContentType

to display the document

and this is the code

C#

if (URL.Contains(".doc"))//URL is document path
                  Response.ContentType = "application/msword";
        Response.WriteFile(URL);
        Response.Flush();
        Response.Close();

but when i run , display a downloaded dialog and didn't view any thing

the MIMI list

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vsofficedeveloper/archive/2008/05/08/office-2007-open-xml-mime-types.aspx[^]

any idea to display document in browser , i need it necessary

Thx

Posted 27-Feb-13 2:42am

Darsh_Basha

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Anuja Pawar Indore · Answer 1 · 2013-02-27T03:20:00

Solution 1

You cannot display doc file in browser without saving it, if you want then you have to write plugin with respect to each browser and that is a very length code of work. A PDF can be opened in a browser, if you can convert doc to pdf that could be an easy solution.
Good luck

Posted 27-Feb-13 3:20am

Anuja Pawar Indore

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Darsh_Basha 27-Feb-13 10:06am

Hi
@Anuja Pawar Indore

thx for replay , but your idea is not good

i want to use
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Response.ContentType = "application/msword";
and why convert the document to pdf

thx

Anuja Pawar Indore 27-Feb-13 10:11am

Its not converting to PDF, but pdf can be opened in browser.
have a look at this
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2519026/how-do-you-stream-an-excel-2007-or-word-2007-file-using-asp-net-and-c-sharp

bbirajdar 27-Feb-13 12:28pm

I agree with Anuja..Browsers do not natively support office documents. If you think the answer is wrong then show us a website which opens them in browser. And to add to the answer, most browsers do not support PDF too..You need to read doc contents and display them in HTML +5

Darsh_Basha 28-Feb-13 3:43am

Hi
@Anuja Pawar Indore
@Anuja Pawar Indore
using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word;// Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word reference

private void readFileContent(string path )

{

ApplicationClass wordApp = new ApplicationClass();

object file = path;

object nullobj = System.Reflection.Missing.Value;
object format = true;

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document doc =wordApp.Documents.Open(

ref file,
ref nullobj,
ref nullobj,

ref nullobj,
ref nullobj,
ref nullobj,

ref nullobj,
ref nullobj,
ref nullobj,

ref format,
ref nullobj,
ref nullobj,
ref nullobj,
ref nullobj,
ref nullobj,
ref nullobj);

doc.ActiveWindow.Selection.WholeStory();

doc.ActiveWindow.Selection.Copy();

string sFileText = doc.Content.Text;
string style = doc.

doc.Close(ref nullobj, ref nullobj, ref nullobj);

wordApp.Quit(ref nullobj, ref nullobj, ref nullobj);

Response.Write(word);

}

this function open the content of the word file in web,but without word style
thx

Anuja Pawar Indore 28-Feb-13 8:50am

The above code opens and fill a Word file from File System, if this is what you need, then good

Darsh_Basha 28-Feb-13 9:42am

sorry
but this not i want to do

Anuja Pawar Indore 28-Feb-13 9:46am

You wont find any site which opens doc file in browser. Think something else, i m telling you from my past 13yrs of experience :)