Problem in opening word document with bad links

[ahmadjf93]

I am unable to open word document using WordprocessingDocument.Open method because of bad links in the documents.
Please can you provide me a solution to bypass this problem. I am using openxml library in vb.net V2.0.5022.0

[mikeebowen]

Hi @ahmadjf93,

To help with this, we'll need some more information. What version of the SDK are you using? What error do you receive when you try to open the document? In what way are the links "bad"?

[ahmadjf93]

@mikeebowen please can you provide me any solution because we have this issue for long time and I think that you have a solution for this

[mikeebowen]

I will try and look into this this week. Another question, do the files in question open in Word?

[ahmadjf93]

Yes it opens normally

[ahmadjf93]

TDCH-7840.docx
this is the document

[ahmadjf93]

@mikeebowen Hello any news about this issue?

[mikeebowen]

Hi @ahmadjf93 , Sorry for the delay. I looked into this and it is a known issue with System.IO.Packaging. This issue has more details and discussion on the problem (#38). There is a workaround that you can implement to handle malformed URIs. Eric White wrote an article about how to implement it on his blog here.