syhc006 / wordtemplatehelper

An Office Add-in sample.

WordTemplateHelper

This repo is an Office Add-in sample, which demonstrates how to create an Office Word Add-In project, including APIs and add-in.

You can find the details of this code demo from the link(by Chinese): How to Create an Office Word Add-In, including APIs and Add-In

How to run the project

First clone this repo to your local disk. Open the solution with VS 2017.

Compile the WordTemplateHelperApi project, and run this command to launch the API:

dotnet run

The URL of the API is:

http://localhost:5000/api/

Then compile the WordTemplateHelperSource project. Use this command in the directory:

ng build --prod

Copy all files in the dist directory to the WordTemplateHelperWeb directory.

Now set the WordTemplateHelper project as the startup project and run the solution by click start button on the toolbar of VS2017.

A Word instance will be launched and you can test the Word Template Helper.

The architecture of the solution

The solution contains these projects:

• WordTemplateHelper. This project is the configuration project of a Word Add-in, which contains a WordTemplateHelperManifest.xml of the Add-In.

• WordTemplateHelperApi. This is the API of the Add-in. This project is developed by ASP.NET Core MVC.

• WordTemplateHelperSource. This is the source code of the Add-in. This is a pure frontend project with Angular and TypeScript.

• WordTemplateHelperWeb. This is the main project of the Add-In. Commonly we should spend most of the time in this project. Because of Angular, we just need to copy the files in dist directory to this project.

The representation of the Word Add-in

Users can upload local documents as a template to the server, and search, download, and apply them to local documents.

Contact

[email protected]