Visual Studio 2005 and MS Word Library

Lately I've been attempting to instantiate an MS Word document in order to convert it to XML. I'll keep logging the progress to my end result.

I am aware of a couple ways to open a word document from ASP.NET 2.0. The first way is to use the traditional COM objects (and also including the Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word library .NET library). I'm going to attempt this one first. The second way is to use an MS Word project directly from Visual Studio. Since I know next to nothing about this method, I will only go further down this road if I can find more documentation. The help docs are still fairly loose and incomplete (I have found several links that don't work).

At any rate, I'll continue to note what happens and my progress.