All, I develop web pages in Visual Studio 2005 in Visual Basic. I want to create reports in MS Word (text and several Tables also). How can do it. Can u Help me
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any reason for Word File? not Crystal reports ?Asad– Asad2010-02-21 05:26:46 +00:00Commented Feb 21, 2010 at 5:26
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Don't use Office Automation on a server. I don't know why so many there seem to be so many tutorials on using automation from ASP.NET when Microsoft themselves recommend very strongly against it.
Don't go the HTML route either - it's a cheat, and while Word 2003 will happily open the files you send, Word 2007 will complain about the file extension being incorrect.
There's a previous question here on creating Word documents using C#, and several of the answers/links apply to ASP.NET. The two most common approaches are WordML (XML - Word 2003) and Office Open XML (Word 2007).
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Nordes
For Word 2007+ I use DocX from codeplex ;). It is working well and it's pretty much a no brainer.
Aspose.Words is another great option.
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OfficeWriter is another third party tool specifically designed for scenarios like this:
