Editing Microsoft Word documents

[siwix]

I'm trying to understand the webdav server, but I'm unable to edit Office documents.
In MS Word I open a document using http://localhost:4568/doctest.docx as filename. The document opens fine in protected read only mode. I click on enable editing and the protected mode disappears, but the document is still in read only mode.

I'm using the Development build where locking is implemented.
Also, if I map the http location to a Network drive I can edit documents.

Any ideas?

[akotousov]

I have the exact same problem when using Word 2013 (although everything works fine with Word 2010). Any ideas to get it working for Word 2013 would be very helpful.

[bwakabats]

Same problem with Word 2016

[dh-phuong]

Yes. Same problem with Word 2016

    public Stream OpenWriteStream(bool append)
    {
        if (append)
        {
            FileStream result = new FileStream(ItemPath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.ReadWrite, FileShare.None);
            result.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.End);
            return result;
        }

        Stream stream = null;
        try
        {
            // Impersonate the current user and create the file stream for writing the file
            WindowsImpersonationContext wic = Identity.Impersonate();
            stream = new FileStream(ItemPath, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.ReadWrite, FileShare.None);
            wic.Undo();
        }
        catch(Exception ex)
        {
            throw ex; // File access denied
        }
        return stream;
    }

[Nikesh-Newaskar]

Any updates on the Editing document in Word?. I am also facing the same issue where the document is opening in read-only mode in Word 2016

[fabricecaruso]

It's caused by a wrong mime type in WebDavHeadMethodHandler.cs

It can be fixed by replacing :
context.Response.AppendHeader("Content-Type", "text/html");
with
context.Response.AppendHeader("Content-Type", MimeMapping.GetMimeMapping(doc.Name));