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.NET Forum / Visual Studio.NET / VS Tools for Office / April 2006Referencing Word documents from VB
In order to reference Word in VB, I have to add a reference to -- Microsoft Word 11.0 Object Library <-- I'm using Office 2003 Then, in my VB program, I'm forced to declare variables using the following syntax -- Dim newdoc As New Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document In a book I'm using to learn VB 2003 (my last VB work was in 5.0), it shows that one should be able to simply say Dim newdoc as New Word.Document When I look at the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word Assembly, it has 4 assemblies -- Microsoft Microsoft.Office Microsoft.Office.Interop Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word Only the latter has any classes, etc. under it. The others appear to be empty namespaces. Is having all of those extra entries why I can't use the shorthand Word.Document in my DIM statements? If so, is my setup fouled up some way, or is it this way in all VB 2003 .NET installations? Any help greatly appreciated.  SignatureGreg Wallace Hello Greg, I'm a C# geek, but I'm sure you could use a statement like: Imports Word = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word Sometimes it's better to use the full namespaces, because e.g. I can create a namespace X4U.Word in my application. Then the compiler doen't know wich object to use - Microsofts or mine. Thats the reason for using long namespaces. hope this helps, SignatureHelmut Obertanner Senior Developer MVP - Visual Developer VSTO http://www.x4u.de > In order to reference Word in VB, I have to add a reference to -- > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > some way, or is it this way in all VB 2003 .NET installations? Any help > greatly appreciated. Beautiful! That worked perfectly. I went back through the 4 sample projects I had worked on and made the appropriate correction. I didn't know you could assign synonyms like that in an imports statement! -- Thanks a lot!, Greg Wallace > Hello Greg, > [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > > some way, or is it this way in all VB 2003 .NET installations? Any help > > greatly appreciated. Free MagazinesGet these publications absolutely FREE for up to 12 months. There are no hidden fees and no obligation. Simply choose a title, complete the application form and submit it. Read more ...
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