Making OfficeWriter available to your applications

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

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

Method #1: Adding OfficeWriter to a specific application

1. At the top level of your application, create a directory call bin.
2. Copy SoftArtisans.OfficeWriter.ExcelWriter.dll or SoftArtisans.OfficeWriter.WordWriter.dll from the install directory to your application's bin directory.

If you are using Visual Studio .NET:

1. Right-click the project name in the Solution Explorer and choose Add Reference.
2. Click Browse and navigate to C:\Program Files\SoftArtisans\OfficeWriter\bin.
3. Choose Softartisans.OfficeWriter.ExcelWriter.dll or SoftArtisans.OfficeWriter.WordWriter.dll and click Open.
4. Click OK.

Method #2: Making OfficeWriter available to all applications on a machine

Step 1: Install OfficeWriter in the Global Assembly Cache (GAC)

These instructions can be used for installing SoftArtisans.OfficeWriter.ExcelWriter.dll or SoftArtisans.OfficeWriter.WordWriter.dll in the GAC; remember to change 'ExcelWriter' to 'WordWriter' if you want to install SoftArtisans.OfficeWriter.WordWriter.dll instead of ExcelWriter:

1. Open a command prompt window and move to the directory OfficeWriter\bin\dotnet20\.
   # Enter gacutil /i SoftArtisans.OfficeWriter.ExcelWriter.dll.
   # Open the file machine.config (in [Windows directory]\Microsoft.NET\Framework[.NET version directory]\CONFIG).

Step 2: Reference the copy of OfficeWriter in the GAC in machine.config or web.config

Add the following line to the assemblies node of machine.config:

<add assembly="Softartisans.OfficeWriter.ExcelWriter,
            Version=x.x.x.x, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=f593502af6ee46ae"/>

OR

Create a text file containing the following lines, and save it as web.config. Save web.config at the top level of your application.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
    <system.web>
        <compilation>
            <compilers>
            </compilers>
            <assemblies>
                <add assembly="Softartisans.OfficeWriter.ExcelWriter,
                    Version=x.x.x.x,
                    Culture=neutral,
                    PublicKeyToken=f593502af6ee46ae"/>
                <add assembly="*" />
            </assemblies>
        </compilation>
    </system.web>
</configuration>