How to open a word document from C# application

[Luc Pattyn]

Most apps need physical files for their documents, so create a document file (could be in a temp folder), then pass its path to Process.Start() to launch the associated application to open it. Note: the app may remain open after you're done. :)

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[Lost User]

What kind of error or problem are you getting? Can you provide more information on it? I have found very good link to store any kind of document in database using C#, that might help you. http://www.csharpfriends.com/Articles/getArticle.aspx?articleID=112[^] HTH

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[seeism]

hey thanks for that this is what i actually want.Now i able to open a word document if my file that stored was doc but it is coming as junk value.What could be the reason ??? seeism

[seeism]

Hi, I am not getting any error.I just want to open a file in the same application and now my problem is solved using this String new_FileName = Path.ChangeExtension(Path.GetTempFileName(), "txt"); File.WriteAllBytes(new_FileName, result); System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(new_FileName); But now i getting junk values for doc data.:(

[Luc Pattyn]

why would you change the extension? if it is a Word document, NotePad will not be able to open it properly. The normal thing to do is to use two database fields: one for the filename (including extension!), one for the binary data (the actual file content). :confused:

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[seeism]

Hi, I am able to read only the first char of bytes from db.What could be the reason.Now in txt file ,it is opening and prints the first char but for doc,it is coming junk data seeism

[seeism]

Soory i pasted the code for txt here.I put it as doc while opening the doc file.For doc file it is coming junk data.For txt first char is printing SqlDataReader dr = cmd.ExecuteReader(); DataTable dt = new DataTable()); dt.Load(dr); result = (Byte[])dt.Rows[0]["File_Doc"]; when i check this result array it is contiaing the first byte value and all others r zero Why so

[Luc Pattyn]

use your database management tool to check the content of the field, and determine whether the problem is in storing or in retrieving the data. BTW: you don't need a DataReader, a simple ExecuteScalar could suffice, see here e.g.: Save An Image Into SQL Server 2000 Database[^] :)

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[seeism]

I am not much familiar with sql server.How to view the binary data in sql server. ??

[seeism]

Hey my probs was solved.oops that was a mistake in the stored proc where i didn mentioned the size of binary data.SO only one data was storing:) thanks a lot for ur help.