Re: Open office documents in web browser w/o having office install

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Not what I wanted to hear but thanks for the info.

"Alessandro Angeli [MVP::DigitalMedia]" wrote:

> "hzgt9b@xxxxxxxxxx" wrote:
>
> > Using MS Visual Studio 2003, VB .NET,
> > I am developing an application that uses a web browser
> > control to display training material to users. In testing
> > on a machine with MS office 2003 installed, I was able to
> > point the web browser control (hereafter called wbc) to a
> > word, excel or power point file and it would on IN the
> > browser control. My problem is that none of my users have
> > Office 2003 installed - but I fugured that was no problem
> > - just install the free viewers for the these application
> > file types and everthing is hunky-dory, right? Well,
> > that's not what I experienceing - now when I install the
> > excel, word and ppt viewers on a user machine and run my
> > app, when the wbc points to one of these office
> > documents, the viewer application is launched outside the
> > wbc (versus the file being opened in the browser!). How
> > can I get the viewer files to open in the browser versus
> > launching a seperate application (which is very
> > undesirable in my case). Or better yet how can I control
> > wether a new browser is laucnhed for each file that I
> > point to or not...
>
> I can't see how this is related to multimedia.
>
> Anyway, that's the correct behavior and you can not control
> it. To open inside IE, the document handler must be an OLE
> control. The Office applications are but the viewers are
> not.
>
> --
> // Alessandro Angeli
> // MVP :: DigitalMedia
> // a dot angeli at psynet dot net
>
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>
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