I want to achieve late binding for the following lines of code which are using early binding. How can I achieve it in C#?
When I removed Microsoft.office.interop.wor
Made the following changes, Its working fine now.
Type wordType = Type.GetTypeFromProgID("Word.Application");
dynamic Word = Activator.CreateInstance(wordType);
object oMissing = System.Reflection.Missing.Value;
DirectoryInfo dirInfo = new DirectoryInfo(@"\\server\folder");
FileInfo wordFile = new FileInfo(fileName);
Word.Visible = false;
Word.ScreenUpdating = false;
Object filename = (Object)wordFile.FullName;
var doc = Word.Documents.Open(ref filename);
doc.Activate();
object outputFileName = wordFile.FullName.Replace(".doc", ".pdf");
/*in the WdSaveFormat enum, 17 is the value for pdf format*/
object fileFormat = 17;
doc.SaveAs(ref outputFileName, ref fileFormat);
/in the WdSaveOptions enum, 0 is for Do not save pending changes.*/
object saveChanges = 0;
doc.Close(ref saveChanges);
doc = null;
Word.Quit();
MessageBox.Show("Successfully converted");