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Richard P

I am trying to help someone out who has a problem with their web server so
be gentle on me. :-) They have an asp.net web app that uses Word to bring up
reports. They started having problems and loaded a different version of Word
to see if that would fix it and now nothing works. I have been successful in
getting everything to work on a development machine using Word 2002 by
changing references and having PIA's installed. This where things get foggy
for me because I develop in VB and haven't made the change over to .net yet.
This is a first. After a succesful compile and test I used copy project to
get all the files needed. I placed those files in a 2003 server test
environment. The first time I ran it I got can't create activex control. I
then loaded Word 2002 on the test server but still get the same error. My
questions are:
1.) Do you need to load the full version of word on the server?
2.) If not do you need to include dll's in the project that didn't come with
the copy project.
3.) I ran across this error in the development environment and think I fixed
it with giving the ASPNET account more permissions than the user account
which I read about on this error.
4.) Would it be okay to replace the files on the production server with
these files just to test this new compile. I can't see what it would hurt
nothing works now but more of a future how to do it question.
Any suggestions on where to go from here would be appreciated.
TIA,
Richard
 
1.) Do you need to load the full version of word on the server? Yes.


4.) Would it be okay to replace the files on the production server
with these files just to test this new compile. I can't see what it
would hurt nothing works now but more of a future how to do it
question.
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That's fine... or even better, place the file in a new application
directory so you won't wreck the existing version anymore.
 
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