Has anyone used Open Office embedded in a .NET Desktop Application?

Question

Is there a way to embed OpenOffice inside a .NET Application?

Something like the use of the DsoFramer in case of MS Office.

Answer 1

I'm not sure how you would do this considering open office is written in java. Although, since it is open source maybe you could write an embeddable version?

Answer 2

There is an API for doing it,

http://www.opendocument4all.com/download/OpenOffice.net.pdf

The only thing I had to modify is that i couldn't fing the .dll in the directory it says on the PDF, I downloaded the Open Office SDK and there they are in the Basis\sdk\cli located in the folder created by the Open Office under the [Program Files].