"lsg" wrote:

> Hi,
> Anybody know how to open docx (MS Word) file, retrive all formfields,
> insert text and print in c# ?
>
> Best Regards
> Leszek
>

> Tom Shelton wrote:
> > On Nov 28, 2:10 pm, Peter Bromberg [C# MVP]
> > <pbromb...@yahoo.NoSpamMaam.com> wrote:
> >> You have two choices:
> >> 1) use the Word Object model by setting a COM tab reference to the
> >> appropriate version of Word.
>
> >> 2)Since docx files are XML, parse the Xml with the Office Xml APIs:
>
> > Docx files are not xml.  They are zip files that contain the xml
> > files.  To open them and manipulate their contents, the OP will want
> > to look at the System.IO.Packaging namepsace from .NET 3.0 and above.
>
> On older .NET versions it should be possible to use #ZipLib to
> get a Stream and use that by XmlDocument Load.
>
> Arne

"Tom Shelton" wrote:

> On Nov 28, 7:30 pm, Arne Vajhøj <a***@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> > Tom Shelton wrote:
> > > On Nov 28, 2:10 pm, Peter Bromberg [C# MVP]
> > > <pbromb...@yahoo.NoSpamMaam.com> wrote:
> > >> You have two choices:
> > >> 1) use the Word Object model by setting a COM tab reference to the
> > >> appropriate version of Word.
> >
> > >> 2)Since docx files are XML, parse the Xml with the Office Xml APIs:
> >
> > > Docx files are not xml.  They are zip files that contain the xml
> > > files.  To open them and manipulate their contents, the OP will want
> > > to look at the System.IO.Packaging namepsace from .NET 3.0 and above.
> >
> > On older .NET versions it should be possible to use #ZipLib to
> > get a Stream and use that by XmlDocument Load.
> >
> > Arne
>
> Sure - it should definately be possible.  If you change the name of a
> docx file to name.zip, you can actually open it with windows explorer,
> just like a normal zip archive.
>
> --
> Tom Shelton
>