Application we developed fills
MS Word templates with data from Database. Customers require to have ability edit Word templates via
MS Word (change style, font, layout e.t.c) with no additional software to be installed and no training.
AFAIK, Sql Reporting Services and Crystal Reports can't populate
MS Word templates produced in
MS Word. So we implemented our custom solution that maps .net classes onto xml-saved
MS Word documents. It looks like we declare
class MyTemplate
{
// maps to [age] field declared in
ms document straight in the text
int Age { get; set; }
// maps to table by attributes applied to property (omitted)
List<Person> Persons { get; set; }
}
We also implemented images insertion.
Are there any free libraries for this task or may be you use your own MS-word templators in your projects?
