Posted on: 7/17/2014 6:05:12 AM | Views : 438

Currently Word and Excel documents are stored on file server which everyone has full access. People map the file server folder as L: drive, and open and edit Word/Excel documents in it directly. 
Now we are going to have a mini website and mini database to manage the files. But we are not going to change this behavior. Otherwise we will have to have a SharePoint Server.
All I want to do, is to present a link on the web page, and this link points to a Word/Excel document on the file server, for example "L:\Projects\ProjA\requirements.doc". User clicks it, it launches the Word/Excel on his PC, which directly opens "L:\Projects\ProjA\requirements.doc". He then edits and saves the document directly, bypassing the website altogether.
So it is totally different from the usual scenario when client browser Go to the complete details ...