http://blogs.technet.com/tristank/archive/2008/11/06/don-t-use-office-applications-or-gdi-or-system-drawing-or-wininet-in-a-server-application-or-asp-net.aspxJohan posted a timely reminder of a long-standing perennial support call generator in his post Office Automation . Adding one more option to the list of possible workarounds – direct XML-based production/manipulation of an OOXML (or ODF, for that matter)en-AUCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.technet.com/tristank/archive/2008/11/06/don-t-use-office-applications-or-gdi-or-system-drawing-or-wininet-in-a-server-application-or-asp-net.aspx#3148336Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:32:53 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3148336Don???t Use Office Applications (or GDI+, or System.Drawing, or WinInet) in a Server Application (or ASP.Net) | MS Tech News<p>PingBack from <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://mstechnews.info/2008/11/don%e2%80%99t-use-office-applications-or-gdi-or-systemdrawing-or-wininet-in-a-server-application-or-aspnet/">http://mstechnews.info/2008/11/don%e2%80%99t-use-office-applications-or-gdi-or-systemdrawing-or-wininet-in-a-server-application-or-aspnet/</a></p>