UnoViewer Blog

Published on 12 Sep 2025

In this blog post we will discuss about how UnoViewer can help you view Microsoft Office Word documents online in your Asp.Net web application. Webforms, .Net Core MVC, Docker (Linux), Blazor, Angular, React or Vue.

Microsoft Office Word (DOC, DOCX)

Following summarizes online Word Viewer's functionality.

• There are two ways to view Microsoft Office Word file format (DOC, DOCX, RTF etc).
• View as native format (faster) or view it after exporting it to PDF (advanced).
• Exporting to PDF will enable search and select features of the viewer.
• For large Word documents it is recommended to view as native format.

Web Based Word Viewer Applications

There are many real-world scenarios where one would be required to view Word files from the web browser.

• Viewing word invoice documents.
• Viewing agreements word files.
• Viewing sale deeds, contracts online.

Word Document Viewer Source Code

Asp.net Word document viewer, UnoViewer samples source code is available for free download from our official Github repository.

• Webforms Word document viewer.
• .NET Core MVC Word file viewer.
• Blazor Word document viewer.
• Docker (Linux) Word file viewer.

All of the above code is in C# (Csharp) & JavaScript. You can easily implement it using VB.NET too. Using Docker, it is possible to use our Word document viewer from the programming platform of your choice like Php, JAVA etc.

How to view Microsoft Office Word Documents Online

We hope that you have by now received the answer to the above question. Please try our online word viewer demo.