Embed MS Word into Windows Form

[mwa]

I've been tasked with creating a Windows application for our company that users can use to enter information about various different processes. In this form will be various different fields related to the process. One of those fields needs to be a "Notes" field. The Notes field needs to have the full MS Word processing capabilities. My thought was to somehow embed a MS Word "shell" into the win form and use the word processing features of Word to edit the Notes. Once complete, the data would need to be stored into a SQL Server database. I've done some googling, and can only find articles related to creating Word docs programmatically. Nothing I've found shows using Word as an editor within a win form. Is this even possible? If so, how would this be done?

Thanks,
Mitch

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[MrDataGuy]

Look at TX Text Control

http://www.textcontrol.com/en_US/

I used it a few years back for for background processing and liked it. The demo shows how one can create a 'clone' of MS-Word using the product.

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Anthony L. Testi
President

http://www.LionCrestSoftwareServices.com

 

[mwa]

I like the concept, but I work at a K-12 school district... i.e. No Money to spend. I'll try to look for a similar open source solution.

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[PRPhx]

This may or may not be much help. It's based on a visual foxpro app, but does contain info on what you need to do to embed Word in an application.:

http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/posts/1299.aspx

Here's another interesting article:

http://www.builderau.com.au/program...-NET-application/0,339028399,339198903,00.htm

It talks about using MS Word functionality in .net apps

 

[realm174]

This thread talks about using a word control within your winform. Not sure how valuable that will be, but hopefully that'll bring you one step closer to what you're trying to achieve.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Fo...s/thread/7f4308ff-ec99-4824-b0ff-fbeac73efdd5

Cheers,

Realm174