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c#asp.netms-wordexport
saran
saran

Reputation:

Problem writing HTML content to Word document in ASP.NET

I am trying to export the HTML page contents to Word.

My Html display page is:

  1. What is your favourite color?

NA

  1. List the top three school ?

one National two Devs three PS

And a button for click event. The button click event will open MS word and paste the page contents in word.

The word page contains the table property of html design page. It occurs only in Word 2003. But in word 2007 the word document contains the text with out table property. How can I remove this table property in word 2003.

I am not able to add the snapshots. Else i will make you clear.

I am designing the web page by aspx. I am exporting the web page content by the following code.

protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

    Response.ContentEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF7;
    System.Text.StringBuilder SB = new System.Text.StringBuilder();
    System.IO.StringWriter SW = new System.IO.StringWriter();
    System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter htmlTW = new System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter(SW);
    tbl.RenderControl(htmlTW);
    string strBody = "<html>" +
        "<body>" + "<div><b>" + htmlTW.InnerWriter.ToString() + "</b></div>" +
        "</body>" +
        "</html>";

    Response.AppendHeader("Content-Type", "application/msword");
    Response.AppendHeader("Content-disposition", "attachment; filename=" + fileName);
    Response.ContentEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF7;

    string fileName1 = "C://Temp/Excel" + DateTime.Now.Millisecond.ToString();
    BinaryWriter writer = new BinaryWriter(File.Open(fileName1, FileMode.Create));
    writer.Write(strBody);
    writer.Close();
    FileStream fs = new FileStream(fileName1, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);
    byte[] renderedBytes;
    // Create a byte array of file stream length 
    renderedBytes = new byte[fs.Length];
    //Read block of bytes from stream into the byte array 
    fs.Read(renderedBytes, 0, System.Convert.ToInt32(fs.Length));
    //Close the File Stream 
    fs.Close();
    FileInfo TheFile = new FileInfo(fileName1);
    if (TheFile.Exists)
    {
        File.Delete(fileName1);
    }
    Response.BinaryWrite(renderedBytes);

    Response.Flush();
    Response.End();
}

Upvotes: 5

Views: 11679

Answers (4)

kmxr
kmxr

Reputation: 479

From what I understand, you are trying to create a ms word document on the fly and are having difficulty when the output is viewed in Word 2003 vs. 2007.

In your code above, you are simply spitting out html and forcing it to be a ms word document. I'm surprised it even works.

Instead, you might want to use Office Interop (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word) or install DocX using nuget. Look at some examples online, search for "C# create word doc".

Upvotes: 0

JasonPlutext
JasonPlutext

Reputation: 15878

You are writing HTML, claiming it is of content type "application/msword", then hoping for the best..

There are more "correct" ways to achieve your objective.

There are a few projects around for converting (X)HTML to WordML content, of which docx4j-ImportXHTML.NET is one. Disclosure: I maintain that; you can find links to others elsewhere here on StackOverflow.

Alternatively, you can use Word's altChunk mechanism, though note:

  • you have less control over how the import is performed;
  • AltChunk isn't supported by Word 2003 (even with the compatibility pack).

Upvotes: 1

lstanczyk
lstanczyk

Reputation: 1401

You can also try to create an Open XML document that is now recognized by MS office. Here is some more info with code samples: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb656295.aspx

Upvotes: 0

NinethSense
NinethSense

Reputation: 9028

Question not clear.

Well, these links may help you in understanding MSWord-C# automation:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/Simple_Ms_Word_Automation.aspx

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/amrish_deep/WordAutomation05102007223934PM/WordAutomation.aspx

Upvotes: 0

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