You will need WordWriter 8 installed in order to run the Hello World sample.

  • If you haven't purchased ExcelWriter, you can download an evaluation version here.
  • If you need to install WordWriter, please visit the install page for instructions.

Downloads

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

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

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.

This tutorial will walk you through writing a snippet of text to a word document using 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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