Word Documents and Excel Documents in IFRAME

In this below example we are converting word OR excel document to HTML.

In this case we are converting and giving converted HTML file as ""src"" to ""iframe"".

Step By Step Procedure :

1)First step is create one folder in your application which needs to maintain the documents in that because iframe will take src within the application itself,outside of the application it will not work.

2) The aspx page as follows :

    <asp:ScriptManager ID="ScriptManager2" runat="server">

    </asp:ScriptManager>

    <div>

        <table>

            <tr>

                <td valign="middle" align="center">

                    <asp:FileUpload ID="FileUpload2" runat="server" />

                    <asp:Button ID="btnView" runat="server" Text="View" onclick="btnView_Click" />

                </td>

            </tr>

            <tr>

                <td width="100%">

                    <asp:UpdatePanel ID="panel2" runat="server">

                        <ContentTemplate>

                            <div style="background-color: ThreeDFace;">

                                <asp:Label ID="lblFileName" runat="server">

                                </asp:Label>

                            </div>

                            <br />

                            <iframe id="docPreview" src="" width="100%" height="500px" frameborder="0" runat="server">

                            </iframe>

                        </ContentTemplate>

                    </asp:UpdatePanel>

                </td>

            </tr>

        </table>

    </div>

3) Add Interop.Excel & Interop.Word dll references for the application :

Click here to get the dll's

4) The button click event will be like this :

First get the binary data of file and save that file to its original format in documents folder.After saving the file according to the file extension convert to Html format and give the Html file as src for iframe.

private Word.ApplicationClass MSWord;       // The Interop Object for Word

private Excel.ApplicationClass MSExcel;     // The Interop Object for Excel

object Unknown = Type.Missing;        // For passing Empty values

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

           

}

protected void btnView_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

            byte[] BinaryFile = null;

            if (FileUpload2.PostedFile != null)

            {

                int FileSize = FileUpload2.PostedFile.ContentLength;

                BinaryFile = new byte[FileSize];

                FileUpload2.PostedFile.InputStream.Read(BinaryFile, 0, (int)FileUpload2.PostedFile.ContentLength);

                string FileName = FileUpload2.FileName;

                lblFileName.Text = FileName;

                string FileExtension = Path.GetExtension(FileName);

                string FolderPath = Server.MapPath("~/Documents");

                File.WriteAllBytes(FolderPath + "\\" + FileName, BinaryFile);

                if (FileExtension == ".doc" || FileExtension == ".docx")

                {

                    ConvertWordToHTML(FolderPath + "\\" + FileName, FolderPath + "\\" + FileName.Split('.')[0] + ".html");

                }

                else if (FileExtension == ".xls" || FileExtension == ".xlsx")

                {

                    ConvertExcelToHTML(FolderPath + "\\" + FileName, FolderPath + "\\" + FileName.Split('.')[0] + ".html");

                }

                docPreview.Attributes["src"] = "../Documents/" + FileName.Split('.')[0] + ".html";

            }

}

This method is used to convert WordDocument to HTML :

public void ConvertWordToHTML(object FilePath, object SaveTarget)

{

            if (MSWord == null)

                MSWord = new Word.ApplicationClass();

            try

            {

                MSWord.Visible = false;

                MSWord.Application.Visible = false;

                MSWord.WindowState = Word.WdWindowState.wdWindowStateMinimize;

                MSWord.Documents.Open(ref FilePath, ref Unknown,

                     ref Unknown, ref Unknown, ref Unknown,

                     ref Unknown, ref Unknown, ref Unknown,

                     ref Unknown, ref Unknown, ref Unknown,

                     ref Unknown, ref Unknown, ref Unknown, ref Unknown);

                object format = Word.WdSaveFormat.wdFormatHTML;

                MSWord.ActiveDocument.SaveAs(ref SaveTarget, ref format,

                        ref Unknown, ref Unknown, ref Unknown,

                        ref Unknown, ref Unknown, ref Unknown,

                        ref Unknown, ref Unknown, ref Unknown,

                        ref Unknown, ref Unknown, ref Unknown,

                       ref Unknown, ref Unknown);

            }

            catch (Exception e)

            {

            }

            finally

            {

                if (MSWord != null)

                {

                    MSWord.Documents.Close(ref Unknown, ref Unknown, ref Unknown);

                    MSWord.Quit(ref Unknown, ref Unknown, ref Unknown);

                }

            }

}

This method is used to convert ExcelDocument to HTML :

public void ConvertExcelToHTML(string Source, string Target)

{

            if (MSExcel == null) 

                MSExcel = new Excel.ApplicationClass();

            try

            {

                MSExcel.Visible = false;

                MSExcel.Application.Visible = false;

                MSExcel.WindowState = Excel.XlWindowState.xlMinimized;

                MSExcel.Workbooks.Open(Source, Unknown,

                     Unknown, Unknown, Unknown,

                     Unknown, Unknown, Unknown,

                     Unknown, Unknown, Unknown,

                     Unknown, Unknown, Unknown, Unknown);

                object format = Excel.XlFileFormat.xlHtml;

                MSExcel.Workbooks[1].SaveAs(Target, format,

                        Unknown, Unknown, Unknown,

                        Unknown, Excel.XlSaveAsAccessMode.xlExclusive, Unknown,

                        Unknown, Unknown, Unknown,

                        Unknown);

            }

            catch (Exception e)

            {

            }

            finally

            {

                if (MSExcel != null)

                {

                    MSExcel.Workbooks.Close();

                    MSExcel.Quit();

                }

            }

}

5) Here in my example i have taken fileupload to upload word and excel documents, after selecting a file by clicking View button we can view the output just like this :

Output for WordDocument :

Output for ExcelDocument :