Using VS.NET or VS 2005

[Chubbly Geezer]

Hi

would anyone know a good resource I could use.

I am wanting to create Word 2003 documents from within Visual Basic. I
beleive I am probably looking a creating a word document to use as a
template, but then wish to load and populate this document with data from an
SQL database using Visual Basic.

I've never had to interact with Word before so I don't know the object model
and not really sure what the best way of creating the Word template would
be.

Many thanks

Chubbly

 

[Default User]

Any new product is better than it's predecessor (one would say):
VS 2005
using VSTO 2005 extension for Word/Excel projects/solutions inVS 2005

But:
The develop experience in above environment is great and will decrease the
development turnaround.
But you have to consider the impact of deployment.
So, developing yr solution: piece of cake using the above tools but you'll
have to spend half an afternoon
talking to your IT department to get below listing done.
Client has to run:
- Office 2003 (at least) and Servicepack 1 (at least)
- Dotnet framework version 20
- PIA (primary interop assemblies) have to be installed

Krgrds,
Perry