How do I get the word file opened dynamically that I have created on my ASP.NET site

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I have an ASP.NET website. I want the users to send an email to their friends with url of the page they like. I do not want to use email from site but i would prefer the users to use their own email id for sending the url of current page to their friends.
To solve this issue i generated a word document which has link to the current page as a body of the Ms Word document, My code is simple as follows:

C#

string url = HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.ToString();
        string strBody = "<html>" +
            "<body>" + 
                "<div>Please visit this site</div>" +
                "<div> <a href='" +url+"'>Requested Page</a></div>"+
                
            "</body>" +
            "</html>";
        string fileName = "RecommendedSite.doc";
        // You can add whatever you want to add as the HTML and it will be generated as Ms Word docs
        Response.AppendHeader("Content-Type", "application/msword");
        Response.AppendHeader ("Content-disposition", "attachment; filename="+ fileName);
       Response.Write(strBody);

The word document is generated properly but there are two problems where i need help:
. firstly the word document that is generated, is downloaded to download folder. I want this to ope automatically as word document.
secondly i want the word document to open in Email mode so that the user can just write email address and send it. I do not want to open in Home mode, as it opens by default there.

Many thanks to all for help

What I have tried:

I have tried creating a word document it work successfully.
For the problems i face, i have tried the following code:
System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo startinfo = new ProcessStartInfo();
startinfo.FileName = "WINWORD.EXE";
startinfo.Arguments = fileName;
Process.Start(startinfo);
but it get the error page not found.
I wonder if there is any way i can save the generated word document on the site itself and open it for users.
for the second problem i have tried some options for Response.AppendHeader but those i guess do not appear to work.

Posted 21-Apr-16 6:24am

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Updated 21-Apr-16 6:43am

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Richard Deeming · Answer 1 · 2016-04-21T06:43:00

That's a perverse way to do it! What if the user doesn't have Word installed? What if they they don't have this mythical "email" mode within Word? What if they use a different email client? Etc.

And the reason you can't use Process.Start to launch Word is because your code is running on the server. Even if Word is installed on the server, it would open on the server, where nobody would be able to see it.

What's wrong with a straight mailto: link?

C#

string subject = "Look at this page";
string url = "http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/1094998/How-do-I-get-the-word-file-opened-dynamically-that";
string body = "Please visit this page\n" + url;

hyperlink.NavigateUrl = string.Format("mailto:?subject={0}&body={1}",
    HttpUtility.UrlEncode(subject),
    HttpUtility.UrlEncode(body));

HTML

<a href="mailto:?subject=Look%20at%20this%20page&body=Please%20visit%20this%20page%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.codeproject.com%2FQuestions%2F1094998%2FHow-do-I-get-the-word-file-opened-dynamically-that">Send a link</a>

Send a link

You can't specify an HTML body, but most email clients automatically turn URLs into hyperlinks in plain-text messages.