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1. Have a class level form variable
2. In the double click event handler, try something like this

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if ((formVariable == null) || (!formVariable.Created))
{
// create the...

Load the string into a stream and feed it to the DataSet



DataSet ds = new DataSet();

StringReader sr = new...

See whether the information in this link helps

I am not sure about IE but I have used another office launcher ocx control (released by MS) successfully in our project. If all else fails, you can give this control a try.

Visual C++ ActiveX...

Did you try...

IMain mainInterface = myusercontrolvariable as IMain; ???

On second thought, I decided to edit my post to remove the paid subscription website. I don't like to be cursed if people don't like the content in that website. :)

ha.. I never tried that website in FireFox. I am still a dumb IE user :D(well actually, AvantBrowser) . Looks like they need a good testing team to test their site in atleast few major browsers.

I am not sure whether I understood your question. If you have trouble reading xml file, there are many ways to do it.

1. using XmlTextReader class
2. using XmlDocument and XPath query
3....

apricotsun,

If you have time, please go thro' the video courses available in the following websites. To me, video course are the best training materials to get me started pretty quick in any...

You can use xsd.exe tool to create .xsd file out of .xml, then use the .xsd to generate class files using the same xsd.exe tool (xsd.exe information ) in design time. Is this what you are looking for?

cjard,

The following link might help you on how to handle the UnHandled exception (occurs in other part of your program including threads).
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You are not releasing the COM components properly. So, the word application won't quit when you say so (appWord.Quit() won't work).

Follow these rules

1. Declare a variable exclusively when...

One minor suggestion. You can use WebClient class instead of HttpWebRequest. WebClient class is a wrapper to the HttpWebRequest. It exposes most of the properties/settings the HttpWebRequest class...

Here is the ADO.NET code...

// Construct the connection string
string strConnection = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.Oledb.4.0;" +
"Data Source="+ fileName + ";" +
"Extended Properties=" +...

1. What value are you trying to read from Excel? There are two types of values in Excel i. Formatted value (displayed to the user) ii. Underlying unformatted value.

2. You can use the following...

1. Word automation

Adv: ????
Disadv:

you need to have word application in the machine that creates the word document.
Great care needed when you program. If...

TryParse() is nothing to do with your problem. I mentioned it to make a point. Ever wondered the difference between Parse() and TryParse()?



1. Creating and raising exception is a time...

Relying on exception for decision making is discouraged in .NET (.NET introduced the "TryParse()" in int, double, datetime etc just for this reason)

The user of my library knows whether they...

Subclassing/MessageHook/<some one please insert cool or scare the hell out of you sounding name that I missed to do this job :D > is the way to go. Not sure whether the subclassing or MessageHook is...

Well, I encountered the same situation but I took a short cut to solve this problem. I let the user specify whether the calling application is windows (actually, windows service) or web application...

It looks like working folder of the VB app is messed up when your VB application is launched from the launcher application. Check the working folder. If this is the case, review the code in launcher...

I wrote a small program to compare two strings containing "Logitech® Camera Driver" value. The double equal operator returns true. So, it is not the problem of == operator.

Now we narrow down the...

1. Get the used range
2. Call "get_Value()" method on the range to get all the values in a single shot , otherwise you will have performance problem.
3. Loop thro' the array (#2 output). If you...

Did you try any one of the encoding classes?

Try

System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString(bytes); method..

If that doesn't work, it should most prob. be the encoding problem. Try different...

The keyword for your search is "Word Automation" (requires MS Word application). Or you can look for a third party word viewer control(assuming you want to diplay word document on the screen).