Automating creation of document with word within .net

[Simon Verona]

I want to create a Word document based on a template and display the
document ready for editting by the user.

Once the user has finished editting, they will save the document and close
word, I want to then pick up the document and copy it up to a server.

This is in vb.net. So far, I've managed to create the document and save it
away (so it knows the file location I wat it in) using the following code:


Dim LetterName As String = "c:\dms\forms\" & filename
Dim word As New Word.ApplicationClass
Dim doc As Word.Document
Debug.WriteLine("AppPath=" & System.Windows.Forms.Application.StartupPath)
Try
doc = word.Documents.Add(System.Windows.Forms.Application.StartupPath &
"\Dms Mailmerge.dot")
Catch ex As Exception
Debug.WriteLine("error = " & ex.InnerException.Message)
End Try
doc.SaveAs(LetterName)
word.Visible = True
word.Application.Activate()

I can't however, work out what to do next to pick up when Word is closed and
the file is saved? The vb.net application just carries on after the last
statement above.

Any thoughs ?

Regards
Simon

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[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Simon,

I want to create a Word document based on a template and display the
document ready for editting by the user.

Once the user has finished editting, they will save the document and close
word, I want to then pick up the document and copy it up to a server.

This is in vb.net. So far, I've managed to create the document and save it
away (so it knows the file location I wat it in) using the following code:


Dim LetterName As String = "c:\dms\forms\" & filename
Dim word As New Word.ApplicationClass
Dim doc As Word.Document
Debug.WriteLine("AppPath=" & System.Windows.Forms.Application.StartupPath)
Try
doc = word.Documents.Add(System.Windows.Forms.Application.StartupPath &
"\Dms Mailmerge.dot")
Catch ex As Exception
Debug.WriteLine("error = " & ex.InnerException.Message)
End Try
doc.SaveAs(LetterName)
word.Visible = True
word.Application.Activate()

I can't however, work out what to do next to pick up when Word is closed and
the file is saved? The vb.net application just carries on after the last
statement above.

Any thoughs ?

You'd probably need to sink the DocumentClose and/or ApplicationQuit events.
This means you need to declare the object variable Word at the global level so
that it doesn't go out of scope when your procedure ends.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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