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How to Automate Mail Merge from ASP.NET application?

Asked by spry08 in VSTO, Microsoft Development, .NET

Tags: Microsoft, Word, 2007, Mail Merge, Automate Mail Merge, VSTO, VBA, ASP.NET, C#

I plan to make a form in ASP.NET that will let the user select which labels he wants generated. I need to automate the following example and 30,000 other labels via Word's Mail Merge:

Part Number
Description
Image of Barcode

The description is derived from attributes of an entity in a SQL Server 2005 database. Example of description:

Description = ThreadSize1 + ThreadType1 + " x " + ThreadSize2 + ThreadType2

On all of our bins in the warehouse we use the Avery 5160 labels. However, along with the bin labels, we use a small magnetic beam label (4" x 4" usually) and a large magnetic beam label (8 1/2" x 3"). These are printed on magnetic sheets with the lines in between to make it easy for cutting.

How can I limit the characters in the 'description' line on the label or make it bigger if the text will be smaller? Some part numbers need to be as big as possible (up to 25' from ground) but still allow the description to be fairly big and have room for a barcode and it's SKU number.

So sometimes I'm worried the text isn't big enough (large beam labels), other times I'm worried there isn't enough room  (small bin labels). It would be (VERY) inconvenient to make labels that would not fit on the bins.

Please advise on what you think would be the easiest solution to automate the label making process once our database is filled with product information (i'm trying to plan ahead).




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