Downloads

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

• OfficeWriter-HelloWorld-csharp.zip
• OfficeWriter-HelloWorld-VB.zip

ExcelWriter 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 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

You can download the Hello World sample code (C# or VB) to see the finished product.

Template vs. Application based Approaches

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

With WordTemplate, we can insert our data into a specially formatted Word file.  

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[Using WordTemplate|Hello World using WordTemplate]
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With WordApplication's full object-model, we can create a Word file completely from scratch.  

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[Using WordlApplication|Hello World Using WordApplication]
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