VB.NET & Office Automation

[Mike]

Hi,

I don't know the MS Office products that well, but I once worked on a project involving VB6 and MS Word. At that time, we were able to use the Word Object Model in our VB6 project to do some things in Word documents, such as working with extended properties, etc.

I was wondering how this "automation" now works with .NET. Do I still need to reference a COM DLL (the Word Library) or is there a "newer" way for doing so. I am wondering how to make MS Office XP/2003 products work with and VB.NET and/or C#.

Thanks.
Mike

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

I don't know the MS Office products that well, but I once worked on a project involving VB6 and MS Word. At that time, we were
able to use the Word Object Model in our VB6 project to do some things in Word documents, such as working with extended
properties, etc.

I was wondering how this "automation" now works with .NET. Do I still need to reference a COM DLL (the Word Library) or is there
a "newer" way for doing so. I am wondering how to make MS Office XP/2003 products work with and VB.NET and/or C#.

I suggest to have a look here:

<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/>