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Asked: 2026-05-15T05:06:55+00:00

.NET 4.0 I am looking for the easiest way to generate a Word document

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.NET 4.0

I am looking for the easiest way to generate a Word document on our server.

Limitations :

  • Server side
  • I don’t want to install word on the server
  • Data source is XML

I tried to generate a DOCX with XSLT which is fast and easy but the only way I could find to validate the generated document is to open it with Word and the only error I get when the document is not valid is “Error while opening document”. Not very useful.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Alex

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  1. Editorial Team

    You have two options given your setup.

    1. Use a third party library, something like the stuff available from SyncFusion
    2. Use the XML route, the initial setup isn’t fun, but once you get it the process is easy.

    A third, much more crude way would be to write an HTML file and save as .doc, but that is going to cause warnings on the user side with 2007 and later.

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