error : word automation

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I have IIS7(Windows Server 2008) 64bit but my application is running in 32bit mode. Ms Office 2003 is installed on server. I cannot find {000209FF-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} in Component Services but I can see {00020906-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} and I assigned all permissions for it too.

If I apply impersonation then I see winword.exe*32 in task manager and page in progress for long long time just like stick, no response/ error. I noticed that page goes stick/always in progress with

'' Passed and no error with impersonation

Dim WordApp As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application = New Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application

'' Passed and no error with impersonation

Dim objDoc As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document = New Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document

'' With impersonation, this line of code stick page to long process - Documents.Open

objDoc = WordApp.Documents.Open(path)

What I am missing? Same code was working with Windows Server 2003 64 bit.

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c#asp.netvb.netoffice-automationword-automation
The advice is don't use Office automation in a service. You're lucky if this is the only error you've seen. See stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/office-automation+asp.net – John Saunders

1 Answers

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Office Interop is not designed for sever side use. Microsoft has a Knowledge Base article on the topic of server-side automation of Office, you may want to read though it.

Without knowing what you are trying to use the interop for, all I can recommend is switch to using Office OpenXML for your sever automation. If you are just doing document manipulation it should allow you to do that. For anything else I would recommend looking over the suggestions for alterintives in the KB article I linked.

If you really must there is a hack solution to your problem

if you create the folder C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\Desktop and C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\Desktop it may solve your problem, but if you can I would highly recommend using OpenXML instead.