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Need help urgently!!!My application needs to open a document(word,excel,pdf) in webform and
then if user edits the document then save the edited document back to the database.How can i save the edited back to database that is displayed in IE on a button click You cannot edit a document in a web form. First, only a copy of the document
is downloaded by the browser. Second, the browser cannot open these sorts of documents. It uses external applications (such as Word, Excel, and Adobe Reader) to open them. Now, let's say that a user downloads a Word document and edits it. He/she is editing a *copy* of a document on the server. The user therefore has to have a method of uploading the new version of the document and saving it over the old. This is no easy task either. First, as the document is not loaded in a browser, the user cannot save it using a browser button click. The application that the browser uses to open the document would have to do it. To do this, the app would have to know the URL of the original document, be able to upload the document to the server, and the server would have to be able to store the document in the appropriate location. We haven't even discussed security yet. You don't want everybody and their brother to be able to upload and save documents over existing documents in a web site. you may even want to keep backup copies of different versions on the server. You may want users to be able to collaborate in some fashion. All of this requires a good security model, and a well-thought-out desing of both the client and server software to accomplish. In other words, if you're an expert programmer, with a great deal of knowledge about ASP.Net, HTTP, Security, and the client applications that would be used for editing the documents, and if you had a team of a half-dozen expert programmers to help you, you might be able to architect and build such an app in 6 months to a year. Your best bet is to use something like Windows Sharepoint Services, which has all of this functionality built in. -- Show quoteHTH, Kevin Spencer Microsoft MVP ..Net Developer Who is Mighty Abbott? A twin turret scalawag. "sonu" <snehal_w***@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1138681907.940898.183150@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com... > My application needs to open a document(word,excel,pdf) in webform and > then if user edits the document then save the edited document back to > the database.How can i save the edited back to database that is > displayed in IE on a button click > |
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