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Hello, my name is Cathal Coffey. I am best described as a hybrid between a developer and an adventurer. When I am not behind a keyboard coding, I am hiking and climbing the beautiful mountains of my home country Ireland. I am a full time student studying Computer Science & Software Engineering at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. I am finishing the final year of a 4 year degree in September 2009. I am the creator of an open source project on codeplex.com called DocX. At the moment I spend a lot of my free time advancing DocX and I enjoy this very much. My aim is to build a community around DocX and add features based on requests from this community. I really enjoy hearing about how people are using DocX in their work\personal projects. So if you are one of these people, please send me an email. Cathal coffey.cathal@gmail.com

Friday, August 14, 2009

DocX v1.0.0.7 released

I have just uploaded DocX version 1.0.0.7 to docx.codeplex.com. This version comes with an extra optional download “Advance – Invoice Example.zip”.

“Advance – Invoice Example.zip” is a zipped Visual Studio 2008 solution that I created to demonstrate how far DocX has evolved since version 1.0.0.1. The first time that you run InvoiceExample.exe it will check for the existence of a document called “InvoiceTemplate.docx”, because this is the first execution this document will not exist, so it is created.

Figure 1.0 - InvoiceTemplate.docx created by first run of InvoiceExample.exe

It is important to note that everything you see in the above screenshot was created by DocX. If you now run InvoiceExample.exe again the document “InvoiceTemplate.docx” is found and it is now used to create an invoice for a factitious company called “The Happy Builder”.

Figure 1.1 - Invoice_The_Happy_Builder.docx created by second run of InvoiceExample.exe

As you can see DocX has loaded the document “InvoiceTemplate.docx” into memory and customized it. This was done by setting custom property values, inserting an image, creating a picture from this image, and replacing a Table with a new Table that contains data from a data source.

This example is intended for an experienced user of DocX. A first time user may find this solution overwhelming. Over the next few days, I am going to create a video tutorial called "Getting started with DocX". This video will be targeted at the first time user of DocX.

I hope that from this example you can see how quickly Docx is growing and also how useful it is becoming. As always if you would like to report a bug, request a feature or even just say hi, please email me at coffey.cathal@gmail.com.

happy coding,
Cathal

DocX is completely free, but if you have found it useful and you would like to make a donation you can do so via paypal.

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26 comments:

  1. UnknownJanuary 29, 2011 at 3:22 PM

    Paypal link report:
    "Sorry, an error occurred after you clicked the last link"

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  2. Zeeshan UmarJune 23, 2011 at 10:18 AM

    Really awesome piece of work, I will definitely it it a try. Documents looks really nice generated through this tool.

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  3. Paul MakramSeptember 7, 2011 at 2:36 AM

    very attractive work

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  4. PauliephonicNovember 1, 2011 at 4:34 PM

    Great project Cathal, makes generating data driven word docs a breeze.

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  5. Jack The CoderJanuary 17, 2012 at 2:59 AM

    Sounds so interesting and will surely try.. i am sure i would be big fan after looking at it. developerjigar@gmail.com

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  6. FrancoisMarch 22, 2012 at 4:03 AM

    Hi! I've been trying to develop an example test application to test the merging of fields in my own docx template. I'm confused as to what type of field to add for these merging fields in Word 2010?

    I looked through your source code that updates these fields and it appears that the method UpdateCustomPropertyValue looks for DOCPROPERTY elements. Why is this? I would've thought that mail merge would've been more appropriate?

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  7. enginhazarMarch 15, 2013 at 4:41 PM

    hii Cathal

    I've been trying combine docx file but can't open because "cannot be opened because there are problems"

    thank you

    engin.hazar@gmail.com

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  8. UnknownJune 5, 2013 at 3:33 AM

    Great tool, But here i facing few problems.
    I load .dotx template and save as .docx file.

    my dotx template contains textbox that not read by DocX.Load() method
    it gives error "sequence does not contains element".


    Thanks..
    chintanavailable@gmail.com

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  9. PramitSeptember 15, 2013 at 12:00 AM

    I have a question here.. Once you create table , do we have a option to repeat the table header in each page of the word doc once page is more than 1.

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  10. gumuruhsspjMay 17, 2014 at 2:02 AM

    where is the video @Cathal?

    i'm interested with your project....
    fgroupindonesia.com

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  11. UnknownNovember 24, 2015 at 10:39 PM

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  12. UnknownNovember 24, 2015 at 10:43 PM

    Hi, I have some html content which i want to add to my word doc. But its showing html tags as it is. For e.g. "Hi" as printed as it is. What i want is it to be bold. Any leads are appreciated. Thanks!!

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  13. UnknownFebruary 23, 2016 at 9:49 AM

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  14. UnknownFebruary 23, 2016 at 9:50 AM

    Do you have a line count object? For instance, If i want to count the number of lines on a page so that i can insert a picture in the middle of the page, how do i do that? Thanks.

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  15. NabeelMay 5, 2016 at 3:17 AM

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  16. NabeelMay 5, 2016 at 3:20 AM

    I'd like to let the headings get numbered automatically. (Just like at Word 2010 when you press the button "List with many level" and select the option where the headings get numbered just as I want them to (the standard word functionality)). Is there a way to accomplish this using DocX

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  17. NabeelMay 5, 2016 at 3:30 AM

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  18. UnknownFebruary 6, 2017 at 1:11 AM

    Thanks for the docx library and helping .net coding tips!

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  19. AnupJuly 14, 2017 at 2:08 AM

    Thanks for the docx library. It really made my work easy :) Very helpfull.

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  20. iair benderMarch 27, 2018 at 3:09 AM

    where is the code. ok

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    1. TrentJuly 31, 2018 at 7:59 AM

      Git Hun. The link is there above which will redirect you to Git Hun

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  21. TrentJuly 30, 2018 at 10:12 PM

    And where is the video?

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  22. UnknownOctober 29, 2018 at 11:31 AM

    Is the example still available somewhere?

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  23. UnknownNovember 1, 2018 at 11:06 PM

    Thank you for bringing more information to this topic for me. I’m truly grateful and really impressed.

    xml data conversion

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  24. UnknownFebruary 18, 2019 at 6:26 PM

    Thank you ,thank your product, I used 'DOCX' to solve a problem of batch words replace,It'very effective

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  25. gogiJune 16, 2021 at 11:17 AM

    DocX is availabled for .NET 3.5 because i have visual studio 2010. i want create word document in sharepoint library from content type?

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