Firing up a Microsoft word document

I'm working on a project that requires to display data retrieve from DB in a word document.

Have anyone tried this before? Need help urgently.

to fire up a word document, I think this would work...

STARTUPINFO StartupInfo;
PROCESS_INFORMATION ProcessInfo;
memset(&StartupInfo, 0, sizeof(StartupInfo));
memset(&ProcessInfo, 0, sizeof(ProcessInfo));
if(CreateProcess(
NULL,
"\"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office\\winword.exe\" c:\\somedir\\doc1.doc",
NULL,
NULL,
FALSE,
CREATE_DEFAULT_ERROR_MODE,
NULL,
NULL,
&StartupInfo,
&ProcessInfo) == FALSE)
{
// Error
// Wait until application has finished
WaitForSingleObject(ProcessInfo.hProcess, INFINITE);
AfxMessageBox("Could not open file!");
// Application has finished...
}



notice how c:... and winword.exe has quotes around it.

Thanks, Jeff. The code helps.

Wonder if u also know how to generate a report in Microsoft word using VC++? ie. I got some data I retrieve from DB and I wish to view it and print it in MS words.

I don't know how to create a .doc file but for a text file, you can do something like this...

CString csName = "c:\\somedir\\doc1.txt";
CStdioFile fTextFile;
if(!fTextFile.Open(csName, CFile::modeWrite | CFile::modeCreate))
{
AfxMessageBox("Unable to create file!");
return;
}

// go thru loop accessing info to write and placing in CString csBuf

fTextFile.WriteString(csBuf);
fTextFile.WriteString("\n");

// end of loop here

fTextFile.Close();



Hope this helps

I just found out we can use "ShellExecute" function to fire up application.

For example,

ShellExecute(NULL, "Open", "C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office\\winword.exe", NULL, NULL, SW_SHOW);