MS Office on Windows 2003 server

[shreenath]

Hi All,

We have a web application which is developed mainly to generate offer letters(word document). The web application is developed in VS.Net 2005 and it is using word templates of MS Office 2007. This application is intiating a word object when ever there is request to create letter.The application was working fine for quiet long time.
We started facing issue once there are security updates on server. When ever there is updates, for some templates when users try to create a letter by using these templates the application hangs up and it gives time out error. I have gone through the blogs and it was suggested that the office should not be installed on the server. Is there any other way to create a word document from web site without installing MS office on server and put all the templates on the server.

Thanks in advance.

[Dwij]

Imagine that you need to retrieve information about a specific cell within an Excel workbook or set of workbooks. The ability to perform this operation without requiring you to load Excel 2007 and then load the workbooks, one after another, can be an incredible time saver, and the Office Open XML File Formats make this task possible. Working with the Office Open XML File Formats requires knowledge of the way Excel stores its content, the System.IO.Packaging API, and XML programming.
go to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb332058.aspx for more info.