I'm developing an app to upload MS word documents where I will store them in 
a varbinary to do full text searching on.

My first question is: How can I verify that the uploaded file is a valid MS 
Word Document
second question: Is there a way to convert it to plain text?

Is there a set of methods that deal with office documents?

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Regards,
Gary Blakely
Dean Blakely & Associates
www.deanblakely.com

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> My first question is: How can I verify that the uploaded file is a valid 
> MS Word Document


You can check its MIME type:

if(MyFileInputControl.PostedFile.ContentType != "application/msword")
{
    // do something...
}


> second question: Is there a way to convert it to plain text?


Not natively...


> Is there a set of methods that deal with office documents?


http://www.aspose.com/Products/Aspose.Words/Default.aspx


-- 
Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

Hi Gary,

I agree with Mark, for ASP.NET Web Application, you will have to use some 
third party tool to convert a Word document to plain text since there's no 
built-in support for Office documents in .NET Framework and Office 
automation at server-side is not supported: 

#Considerations for server-side Automation of Office
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/257757

Regards,
Walter Wang (wawang@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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