Opening Word Doc

[Mason Merrell]

Hello I keep getting this error when trying to open a word doc as follows. Any help on what I'm doing wrong here would be appreciated.

var fileName = "Wyoming_50_Sample.docx";
            var entry = placehold1;
            WordDocument document = new WordDocument(fileName); 'WordDocument' does not contain a constructor that takes 1 arguments

           document.Replace("<<Placeholder_1>>", entry.Text, false, true);

[Dilli Babu Nandha Gopal]

Hi Mason, 

 

Thank you for contacting Syncfusion support. 

 

It is not possible to open/save the Word document in a file system using their path in our portable platforms (ASP.NET Core and Xamarin) since file accessing various across different targets (Operating System/ platform). So, we have provided WordDocument constructors only with stream overloads. 

 

To load/open a Word document, the document must be an embedded resource in your application. By using Xamarin.Forms DependencyService, the memory stream can be saved a storage file with respective to their platforms (Windows, Android, iOS). Please find our UG documentation for saving a PDF document as storage file in all Xamarin.Forms platforms below. 

 

The code example to perform open and save of a Word document in Xamarin platform is available in following link. 

https://help.syncfusion.com/file-formats/docio/xamarin  

 

You can also look at our Sample browser samples in following GitHub location 

https://github.com/syncfusion/xamarin-demos/tree/master/Forms/DocIO  

 

Please let us know if you have any questions. 

 

Regards, 

Dilli babu.