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display data from database in ms.word?

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  1 year ago

  by ganesh22

  Santhosh Pathipati

  Bangalore, India

  Joined 2 years ago
  Hi, my requriment is i want to display data from database in ms.word? Iam using asp.net with C# bcoz iam inserting resume in sqlserver, so i want to display that resume in word
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  1 year ago

  by CForsyth

  Charles Forsyth

  , United States

  Joined 3 years ago

  I've done this myself.

  I'm hoping you know how to get data form your database. I'm not going to go into much detail here, I don't have the time.

  The trick to remember is that you have to control the output sent to the web browser form your code so it's not normal "text/html" but the msWord MIME type.

  To do this you have to set the contentType property of the HttpResponse object to "application/msword"

  Then you're going to also want to add a header that tells the browser what to do with it. In this case you use the .AddHeader method of the HttpResponse object to add the following header...

  [Visual Basic]
  Response.Addheader("content-disposition", "attachment; filename=mywordfilename.doc")
  
  [C#]
  Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment; filename=mywordfilename.doc");
  

  I'm sure if you search Google for "content-dispotion" and "application/msword" and "mime" you'll get good hits.

  Good luck.

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  1 year ago

  by m8mbl

  Man-Bun Lee

  , United Kingdom

  Joined 2 years ago

  Your links to MSDN are a nice touch CF, shall bear this in mind in future.

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