How to Display a word or anyother Document into asp.net page without downloading from sharepoint

Question

my project is a finance based website,

now when ever we upload a word,PDF or Excel document the file is Directly saved in sharepoint and a link is provided to user or the the person whom he submits the invoice or application but according to the new requirement we should provide a view button that basically display the content to the file Kinda like opening a word file on Gmail or yahoo..!!, as far as i know to open them the file must be physically be on the server to be opened by viewer but the file is uploaded in Sharepoint directly as mentioned earlier and i can't write any code for the file to be downloaded on server or on client machine coz reason 1: File may be to Large reason 2: Performance will be reduced

so is there any other way i can open that respective file in a viewer or popup without downloading it on server or on client machine

Please help me on this

Thanks

Answer 1

If I understood your question correctly , you want view the file in browser ?

Use Office Web Apps with SharePoint

Install office webapp

Activate it