Starting and quitting Word programmatically

[Dozo_1st]

To start an instance of Word I use the code

 oWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")
            oWord.Visible = True
            oDoc = oWord.Documents.Add("H:\Customer.dot", , , True)
            'oWord.Quit()

First off, I do not see word starting up, second I don't see word appear at all. However, in the taskmanager it is started, but cannot end the process...

When I activate the code oWord.Quit() I get an error message before compile stating :
C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\App\WordInterface.asmx.vb(48): 'Quit' is ambiguous across the inherited interfaces 'Word._Application' and 'Word.ApplicationEvents2_Event'.

How do I solve these problems?

I appreciate your help, thanx...

Dozo

[cim3]

You need to use early binding. Put a reference to the word object model in your project.

Dim oApp As New Word.Application()

oApp.Visible = True

oApp.Documents.Open("c:\test.doc")

oApp.Documents.Close()

[Dozo_1st]

Unfortunately I still can't set .Visible tot true.

The code I use is the following:

    Dim oWord As New Word.Application()
    <WebMethod()> Public Function PrintKlant() As String
        oWord.Visible = True
        oWord.Documents.Add("H:\Test.dot", , , True)
        oWord.Application.ActiveDocument.PrintPreview()
        'oWord.Quit()
    End Function

ALthough I set .Visible to true, it stays False.

And I stil get the ambiguous warning for the quit statment.

[cim3]

Unless things have changed drastically you can't execute an exe from a web page, which includes a webmethod. Webservices are purely for generating xml. The code works fine in vb.net but will not work in asp.net. As far as i'm aware what your doing is a no go.

[Dozo_1st]

The Winword.exe does start. I can see this in the Taskmanager... However, the .Visible value stays False. I can't get it set to True.

My second problem is, that I cannot get it to stop. Everytime I run my asp app, it starts a new instance of Winword.exe, but even in the taskmanager I cannot get it to stop.

As I said, programmatically the quit statement is still ambiguous and I don't know how to end Winword.exe.. I have tot restart the computer or logout to terminate all existing Winword.exe's.

So, I do get winword to run, but I can't get it to stop...

Dozo

[Dozo_1st]

The quit statement seems to have a bug in .NET;

More on this at microsoft:

support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q315981&

This leaves me with just 1 problem: How do I make Word visible

Thanx for the help though,

Dozo

[brookema]

Dozo,

I have the exact same problem. Found a solution yet?

[Dozo_1st]

Haven't found it yet...

Word does start. However, since I am not able to make it visible does anyone know how to imbed word in an aspx page??

Maybe that is a solution...

Dozo