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Making OfficeWriter available to your applications

Once you've installed OfficeWriter, the next step is There are several steps to make OfficeWriter available to your .NET applications:

1. Install OfficeWriter
2. Include System.

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1. Web
2. Add references to OfficeWriter
3. Include OfficeWriter in your code

Add a reference to System.Web

All of the OfficeWriter API objects (ExcelTemplate, ExcelApplication, WordTemplate, WordApplication) have the output options for saving to disk, saving to memory stream, streaming to user in a page response. The last output option, streaming to the user, has a dependency on System.Web. If you are developing a web application, the reference to System.Web should have been added automatically. For other types of applications, you may need to add this reference.

If you are using Visual Studio .NET:

1. Right-click the project name in the Solution Explorer and choose Add Reference.
2. Click System and locate System.Web

Add a reference to OfficeWriter

There are two ways to do this:

• Make OfficeWriter available to a single application
• Make OfficeWriter available for all applications on machine

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Include OfficeWriter in your code

On any page that uses OfficeWriter, make sure to add the appropriate using statements:

using SoftArtisans.OfficeWriter.ExcelWriter; //For ExcelWriter
using SoftArtisans.OfficeWriter.WordWriter; //For WordWriter

As mentioned above, you will also need to make sure that System.Web is included in your project.