Hello there,

Its been 2 days that i'm trying to open a word document from an aspx page. The code i use is shown below:

'************************************************* *********
Imports WordApp = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word

 Protected Sub openWord(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Dim WordApp As New Word.Application
        WordApp.Visible = True
        WordApp.Documents.Add()
    End Sub
'************************************************* *******

This code runs the winword.exe as a process (i can see it in task manager) but i never get word on my screen.I've imported Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word assemmbly, i've tried using impersonation or the ASPNET account but neither worked.I have given access permissions to all users on winword.exe and I've added the ASPNET account on the Word.Document COM using the DCOMCNFG tool.

Am I missing something here????

Any ideas provided would be helpful

Kostas Lagos

When you deploy your web application to a server... and a user browses to the site using firefox in linux, how will MS Word load?

What you are missing is that the server application is not running in a context the user will ever have access to. Unfortunately, this is easily mistaken using a development environment where the server PC is also the client PC.

You could generate a .doc file then stream that back to the client and hope that they'll be able to read the document (i.e. they have a program that knows how to deal with a .doc file), but you can't start msword.exe from your server application code. It just doesn't work that way.

-Peter