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Ateist
Ateist

Reputation: 156

Open in memory word document via MS Word add-in created using VSTO

I have been programming Add-In for Word. I loaded the document into memory as a byte[]. I need to open it in Word.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 868

Answers (3)

Nikolay
Nikolay

Reputation: 12235

It is not possible. Word can not open documents from memory streams. You have to use (temporary) file.

Upvotes: 1

Ronak Patel
Ronak Patel

Reputation: 2610

If you have a file stored on HDD and want to open it in MS Word then why are you lading it into memory. You can directly open it using Process Class

Process wordDoc = new Process();
wordDoc.FileName = @"c:\example.docx";
wordDoc.Start();

Upvotes: 0

Ahsan
Ahsan

Reputation: 2518

using System.IO;

public void MyWordFileReaderMethod()
{
   string filePath = @"c:\example.docx";
   var file = File.ReadAllBytes(filePath);
}

the object file would contain what you require.

EDIT 1

    ProcessStartInfo startInfo = new ProcessStartInfo();
    startInfo.FileName = "WINWORD.EXE";
    startInfo.Arguments = @"c:\tempfile.docx";
    Process.Start(startInfo);

If you need to start the memory file with word there is no way but to put it into a temp file and use the code above. 2 processes cannot share data across process boundaries if i am not mistaken.

Upvotes: 1

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