please help Display a.doc file in asp

[naveed1]

i want to display a.doc file in asp page. please tell me are it is possible in via binaryread or any other method. am i display 1st page of doc file as image. please help in that

[sani723]

You can consider using the Office PIA (Primary Interop Assemblies), automate
Word and open the document in it, and extract the relevant portions from the
same, preserving the formatting.

[sani723]

but in ASP u can access word or any file uisng File System Object as:

dim fso
dim wordfile

set fso=Server.crea teObject("Scrip ting.FileSystem Object")

wordfile= fso.opentextfil e(path).readall

set fso=nothing

[pongscript]

the procedure below would be invalid...
this is because word are not a raw text format

so the code below would return an unreadable string.


dim fso
dim wordfile

set fso=Server.crea teObject("Scrip ting.FileSystem Object")

wordfile= fso.opentextfil e(path).readall

set fso=nothing

[padmakar]

use an iframe and give src location to the doc file you want to display..

[pongscript]

ahh... since you mean that the file was a in doc format... i agree with padmakar

but make sure the mime type was set properly,, because if you use iframe improperly ... mostlikely ... it would envoke a download instead of displaying your document.