How to generate Word document in WinForms C#, VB.NET?

Syncfusion® Essential® DocIO is a .NET Word library used to generate, read, and edit Word documents programmatically without Microsoft Word or interop dependencies. Using this library, you can generate a Word document in C# and VB.NET.

Steps to generate Word document programmatically in C#:

1. Create a new C# console application project.

2. Install Syncfusion.DocIO.WinForms NuGet package as a reference to your .NET Framework applications from the NuGet.org.

3. Include the following namespace in the Program.cs file.

C#

using Syncfusion.DocIO.DLS;

VB

Imports Syncfusion.DocIO.DLS

4. Use the following code snippet to generate Word document with simple text.

C#

//Creates a new instance of WordDocument (Empty Word Document)
using (WordDocument document = new WordDocument())
{
    //Adds a section and a paragraph to the document
    document.EnsureMinimal();
    //Appends text to the last paragraph of the document
    document.LastParagraph.AppendText("Hello World");
    //Saves the Word document
    document.Save("Result.docx");
}

VB

' Creates a new instance of WordDocument (Empty Word Document)
Using document As WordDocument = New WordDocument
    ' Adds a section and a paragraph to the document
    document.EnsureMinimal()
    ' Appends text to the last paragraph of the document
    document.LastParagraph.AppendText("Hello World")
    ' Saves the Word document
    document.Save("Result.docx")
End Using

A complete working example of how to generate Word document in C# can be downloaded from Generate-Word-file.zip

By executing the program, you will get the Word document as follows.

Take a moment to peruse the documentation, where you can find basic Word document processing options along with features like mail merge, merge and split documents, find and replace text in the Word document, protect the Word documents, and most importantly PDF and Image conversions with code examples.

Explore more about the rich set of Syncfusion® Word Framework features.

An online example to generate Word document.

See Also:

Create Word document in Windows Forms

Create Word document in WPF

Create Word document in ASP.NET Core

Create Word document in ASP.NET MVC

Create Word document in Xamarin

Create Word document in Xamarin.Android

Conclusion

I hope you enjoyed learning about how to generate Word document in WinForms C#, VB.NET.

You can refer to our  WinForm DocIO feature tour page to know about its other groundbreaking feature representations and documentation, to understand how to create and manipulate data.

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