Advise on editing Word documents from WPF application

[Tom G.]

I am hoping that someone can point me in the right direction. My
goals for an application that I am writing are as follows:

1). Able to view Microsoft Word documents from within application
2). Able to edit Word documents from within application
3). Keep the code purely managed.
4). Keep the document viewer / editor as light weight as possible.
5). Migrate doc to docx.
6). Not interfere with other applications running that use Microsoft
Word (such as Outlook).
7). The application will use the WPF technology.


I am redesigning a current application that I wrote that uses the DSO
Framer. Although the DSO Framer has given me some of the items
above,
I am unable to accomplish goals number three, four, and six.


Does anyone have any advise? Any good resources that I may have
overlooked? I have been tackling this problem for a while and would
love to have some people to collaborate with.


Thanks.
Tom

 

[Brian]

I am redesigning a current application that I wrote that uses the DSO
Framer. Although the DSO Framer has given me some of the items above,
I am unable to accomplish goals number three, four, and six.

Does anyone have any advise? Any good resources that I may have
overlooked? I have been tackling this problem for a while and would
love to have some people to collaborate with.

Did you ever figure out a good alternative to DSO Framer?

Our goals are not too different from yours, and our current solution is
based on DSO Framer like yours.


Brian

 

[Tom G.]

Did you ever figure out a good alternative to DSO Framer?

Our goals are not too different from yours, and our current solution is
based on DSO Framer like yours.

    Brian

Oh .... what a relief .... there is someone out there. : )

Unfortunately, I have not figured out a good alternative for our
situation. Along my journey, I have found something that came close
and it might help you out. Check out the link
http://www.aspose.com/categories/visual-components/aspose.editor-for-.net/default.aspx.
The reason why this didn't work for us is because it doesn't support
some features like tables.

We are starting to consider dropping Microsoft Word. I would rather
not because our customers are so familiar with it. Hopefully, more
people will join our conversation and we can progress. Especially
some engineers from Microsoft. That would be very welcomed.



Tom