Building Reports For Microsoft Word

Gwintell

I am building an application for tracking inventory of a small company, and they want reports in Word format, how do I go about doing this using VB .NET?

raymcd

: I am building an application for tracking inventory of a small company, and they want reports in Word format, how do I go about doing this using VB .NET?
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Assuming that you know how to work with the MS Word Com Objects, all you need to do is go to the Project->Add Reference menu item. In there you add a Com reference to the Microsoft Word Object Library of your choice. This will create all the COM interop stuff behind the scenes and you will have a Namespace "Word." I am not fluent in Word Objects, but you will probably be using some declarations like...

dim oWordApp as Word.Application = New Word.Application()
dim oWordDoc as Word.Document= oWordApp.Documents.Add()


These will give you instances of some of the objects you will likely be working with.

-Ray