No matter what users want to do on Word document, they should open it. This guide demonstrates several solutions to open Word in C# and VB.NET via Spire.Doc for .NET.
Open Existing Word
Spire.Doc for .NET provides a Document(String) constructor to enable users to initialize a new instance of Document class from the specified existing document.
Document document = new Document(@"E:\Work\Documents\Spire.Doc for .NET.docx");
Dim document As New Document("E:\Work\Documents\Spire.Doc for .NET.docx")
Spire.Doc for .NET also provides Document.LoadFromFile(String) method of Document class to open a Word document. The Word document can be .doc(Word 97-2003), .docx(Word 2007 and 2010) and .docm(Word with macro).
Document document = new Document();
document.LoadFromFile(@"E:\Work\Documents\Spire.Doc for .NET.docx");
Dim document As New Document()
document.LoadFromFile("E:\Work\Documents\Spire.Doc for .NET.docx")
Open Word in Read Mode
Spire.Doc for .NET provides Document.LoadFromFileInReadMode(String, FileFormat) method of Document class to load Word in Read-Only mode.
Document document = new Document();
document.LoadFromFileInReadMode(@"E:\Work\Documents\Spire.Doc for .NET.docx",FileFormat.Docx);
Dim document As New Document()
document.LoadFromFileInReadMode("E:\Work\Documents\Spire.Doc for .NET.docx", FileFormat.Docx)
Load Word from Stream
Spire.Doc for .NET provides the constructor Document(Stream) to initialize a new instance of Document class from specified data stream and the method Document.LoadFromStream(Stream, FileFormat) to open document from Stream in XML or Microsoft Word document.
Stream stream = File.OpenRead(@"E:\Work\Documents\Spire.Doc for .NET.docx");
Document document = new Document(stream);
Stream stream = File.OpenRead(@"E:\Work\Documents\Spire.Doc for .NET.docx");
Document document = new Document();
document.LoadFromStream(stream, FileFormat.Docx);
Dim stream As Stream = File.OpenRead("E:\Work\Documents\Spire.Doc for .NET.docx")
Dim document As New Document(stream)
Dim stream As Stream = File.OpenRead("E:\Work\Documents\Spire.Doc for .NET.docx")
Dim document As New Document()
document.LoadFromStream(stream, FileFormat.Docx)
Spire.Doc, an easy-to-use component to operate Word document, allows developers to fast generate, write, edit and save Word (Word 97-2003, Word 2007, Word 2010) in C# and VB.NET for .NET, Silverlight and WPF.
