FAQ: How do I open/view Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) in a VB.NET Form?

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How do I open/view Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) in a VB.NET Form?

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Answer 1

Visual Basic .NET doesn’t provide an OLE control that lets you embed an Office document in a form. Here are two approaches:

 

 

1)    Use the Microsoft WebBrowser control (Shdocvw.dll) to open an Office document in VB.Net or C#

Detail: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304662

 

2)    The Visual C++ ActiveX Control named DSOFramer.ocx can be used to host Office documents (such as Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, Visio drawings, Project files, or PowerPoint presentations) in Visual Basic (VB6 and VB.NET) or HTML.

Example: Hosting Office in .NET applications

http://blogs.msdn.com/erikaehrli/archive/2005/08/26/hostofficeinnet.aspx

 

 
For more FAQ about Visual Basic .NET General, please see Visual Basic .NET General FAQ

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