Technology Synapse: March 2007

Since Microsoft Word has good support for HTML, you can generate word document (customized) from your asp.net application very easily. First define a string type variable, strDocBody, which will contain the body of word document. Now add the page HTML to strDocBody as follow:

strDocBody = "" +
"</style>" +
"</head>";

The size of page is defined as size:8.5in 11.0in; and mso-first-footer:ff1; defines the first page footer if you select the option Different first page from menu File > Page Setup > Layout tab. mso-footer: f1; defines footer for all pages. The same way you can define first page header and header for all pages as mso-header: h1;. Other header and footer properties are defined in MsoFooter, MsoHeaderer classes as shown in sample code. border:solid navy 2.25pt; defines the page border and padding:24.0pt 24.0pt 24.0pt 24.0pt; defines page border position.
Now add the actual body of the document and header and footer.

strDocBody = strDocBody + "" +
"</div></body></html>";

Now force this content to be downloaded as your word document using response.

//Force this content to be downloaded as a Word document
Response.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/msword");
//filename specify the name of word document of your choice
Response.AddHeader("Content-disposition", "attachment; filename=myWordDoc.doc");
Response.Charset = "";
Response.Write(strDocBody);

Add the whole content on page load event or button click event as example code.

Example:

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string strDocBody;

try { strDocBody = "<html " + "xmlns:o='urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office' " + "xmlns:w='urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word'" + "xmlns='http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40'>" + "<head>" + "<title>Dynamic Generated Document</title>";

strDocBody = strDocBody + "";

strDocBody = strDocBody + "<style> @page" + "{size:8.5in 11.0in; mso-first-footer:ff1; mso-footer: f1; mso-header: h1; border:solid navy 2.25pt; padding:24.0pt 24.0pt 24.0pt 24.0pt;" + " margin:0.75in 0.50in 0.75in 0.50in ; " + " mso-header-margin:.5in; " + " mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;}" + " div.Section1" + " {page:Section1;}" + "p.MsoFooter, li.MsoFooter, div.MsoFooter{margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; tab-stops:center 3.0in right 6.0in; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:'Arial';}" + "p.MsoHeader, li.MsoHeader, div.MsoHeader {margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; tab-stops:center 3.0in right 6.0in; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:'Arial';}" + "-->" + "</style>" + "</head>";

strDocBody = strDocBody + "<body lang=EN-US style='tab-interval:.5in'>" + "<div class=Section1>" + "<h1>This is my Heading</h1>" + "<h2>This is my Sub Heading</h2>" + "<p style='color:navy;'> This is blue text</p>" + "<p style='font-weight:bold; color:green;'><u> This is green bold underlined text </u></p>" + "<p style='color:red'><I>" + DateTime.Now + "</I></p>" + "<img img width=217 height=162 id='myImg' src='C:/WINDOWS/Web/Wallpaper/Autumn.jpg'>" + "" + "</div> </body> </html> ";

//Force this content to be downloaded as a Word document

Response.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/msword");

Response.AddHeader("Content-disposition", "attachment; filename=mydoc.doc");

Response.Charset = ""; Response.Write(strDocBody);

}

catch (Exception ex)

{

Response.Write(ex.Message);

}

}

There is a trick to download your aspx page as word document without coding so much but as the aspx. If you remove the closing body and html tag from the above program and define first three blocks i.e page HTML, page layout definitions and style definitions on the page load event then your aspx page contents will be downloaded as word document. Other contents along with header and footer will defined as the aspx page. You can find it in the next post.

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