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You can download the code for the Hello world World tutorial as a visual studio Visual Studio solution.

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WordWriter Reference in Visual Studio

Create a .NET project and add a reference to the WordWriter library.

  1. Open Visual Studio and create a .NET project (this tutorial
    • The WordWriter Hello World sample uses a web application
    ).
  2. Add a reference to SoftArtisans.OfficeWriter.WordWriter.dll
    • SoftArtisans.OfficeWriter.WordWriter.dll is located under Program Files > SoftArtisans > OfficeWriter > dotnet > bin

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Please check out Adding OfficeWriter to your .NET Application for more on getting started with OfficeWriter

Template vs. Application based Approaches

WordWriter offers two approaches to generating, processing and manipulating Word documents: WordTemplate and WordApplication.

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This tutorial will walk you through writing a snippet of text to a word document using WordTemplate and WordApplication.

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WordTemplate,

we

can

insert

our

data

into

a

specially

formatted

Word

file. {div5:class=button-style} [Using WordTemplate|Hello World using WordTemplate] {div5}

file.

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Using WordTemplate

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With

WordApplication's

full

object-model,

we

can

create

a

Word

file

completely

from

scratch. {div5:class=button-style} [Using WordApplication|Hello World Using WordApplication] {div5}

scratch.

 

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Using WordApplication