I have ceated a Website which when launched, has a textBox and a Button. If i enter the path of a word document in the texbox and press the button, the File is taken, and converted to a filestream. Then, this file stream is read onto Internet explorer using Response.ContentType and Response.Binarywrite(buffer). Hence it opens the filestream and also recognizs that it is a word file content an opens it accordingly.  However, it runs the ASP.NET development server everyime. Hoe can i perform the same steps mentioned above without using the web development server?

I awnt it o just be a client side program,  

Hi aerojade,

I think you should use ActiveX. hope this helps

solution1:
var cmd = new ActiveXObject('WScript.Shell');
cmd.Run('winword.exe C:\\test.doc');
    
solution2:
var wrd=new ActiveXObject("Word.Application");      
wrd.visible=true;
wrd.Application.Activate();
wrd.Documents.Open("C:\\test.doc");
wrd=null;

VBScript

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=vbscript>
 Sub B1_Onclick()  
  Set objWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")
  objWord.Visible = True                     
  objWord.Documents.Add "c:\a.doc"
 End Sub 
</Script>

thanks for responsding lance. However.. i am not trying to open a file. I am trying to open a Filestream of a word document. Hence it is necessary that it open in IE since it is the only one that can understand a stream and open it. 

The only way to do that is server-side. You could open a new window using the client-side window.open function with that code in it, but that is about the only way from the client.

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