Have to edit word document using C# without adding word dll.......

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how to edit word document(Fill Forms in word) using c# without microsoft word dll reference.

this is my today's task. But i couldn't find any solution.Please give answer if you know ASAP.

Thanks in Advance.

What I have tried:

I searched all the website and r&d this. but didnt get any solutions. all the solution used Interop dll. Please help

Posted 6-Apr-16 22:19pm

TinkerBelly

Updated 7-Apr-16 0:31am

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Philippe Mori 7-Apr-16 22:56pm

There are many options to do that. It is up to you to find which one best fit your need. There is Open XML SDK which is low level.

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Karthik_Mahalingam · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-06T22:48:00

Solution 1

check this DocX[^] without using Interop dll.

Posted 6-Apr-16 22:48pm

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TinkerBelly 7-Apr-16 6:28am

Is any other solution there other than DocX??

Karthik_Mahalingam 7-Apr-16 6:32am

Might be.
But I am using this In my project.it's good.
I will let you know if I find any other..

TinkerBelly 7-Apr-16 6:37am

Oh thank You so much.. and please tell me how to use this since im a fresher.. Thanks in Advance

Karthik_Mahalingam 7-Apr-16 7:52am

go through these, you will find lot of examples

Cathals Corner[^]
GitHub - WordDocX/DocX: [^]
Cathals Corner: DocX - A .NET library for manipulating Word 2007 files[^]

Mario Z 8-Apr-16 1:20am

KARTHIK I just wanted to give you a heads up.
Even though I never used that library I am familiar with it, actually with its resulting DOCX documents and unfortunately I must say that on quite a few occasions it produced an invalid document.

Now what saves it is that commonly those documents will be opened with MS Word which is smart enough to silently repair those documents for you.
However note that if those documents are first opened in some other Word application (for example OpenOffice Writer) you'll receive an error or you'll loose some content when the document is rendered.

Karthik_Mahalingam 8-Apr-16 1:58am

Hi Mario
Thanks for the info, I haven't tried to open that doc with any other word application other than Microsoft.
So far so good with MS office.
do you have any remedy for this?
Thanks,
karthik

Mario Z 8-Apr-16 2:54am

I'm afraid I don't have any simple solution to this, if I was in that situation I would first try to investigate if that library's DOCX writer can be corrected without making some major changes. If I remember correctly the most common issue was misplacement of the elements. Just to give you a small example, I encountered documents that would have an inline run element which have a another child inline run element and this is not allowed by OOXML specification.

But nevertheless in case you only have to support MS Word then you can feel safe because I did not encounter any issue in it, however if you need to have a wider support then I would recommend changing your approach.
Even though OpenXML SDK is not a straightforward solution, it is highly coupled with OOXML specification so it has some learning curve, a great thing about it is that it provides an OpenXmlValidator so you can always validate your resulting documents to make sure that they are valid.