Better Option For Hosting MS Office Documents In Custom App?
Aug 5, 2010
I am currently hosting an IE Browser control in a .NET (2.0) Form and using it to load Office files such as Excel and Word thusly:[code]The hosting and loading works well except whenever I navigate to a file I am presented with a dialog that asks whether I want to save or open the file. (This is standard IE file-download behavior.) I always want to open it of course and I do not want the dialog to show.Another issue is that when I close the window that hosts the IE control and the Office doc the document does not close and remains open on disk. This means that subsequent attempts to open the same file via my app or the native office app will fail because of the sharing violation.Is there a programmatic way of avoiding this dialog and cleaning up resources afterward? I am asking for a programmatic answer because web research has only yielded solutions that entail modifying OS-level settings.
Host an Excel spreadsheet inside my application.Work rather transparently (avoid usability issues like the one described above)Avoid having to make any OS-specific changes that may affect other applications (especially icluding IE)Is zero additional cost (no licensed 3rd party libs please) Code Project and other open source resources are OK.Not mess around with the DSO Framer ActiveX control, unless a stable version is developed/discovered
how do i use the webbrowser to display the word or excel docs. just like the pdf viewer... i tried the webrowser1.navigate but it didnot work, if it does its opening a new window, im using office 2010..
How do I use the webbrowser to display the word or excel docs. just like the pdf viewer. I tried the webrowser1.navigate but it didnot work, if it does its opening a new window, I am using office 2010.
I am trying to develop a database application front end that will allow users to view (read-only) and if neccessary add selected (copies) of documents to a database. The documents can then be viewed (again read only) whilst further analysis is carried out on the document contents. Does such a control exist? I need something like a print preview which can be viewed and read.
I'm having some difficulty merging multiple word documents together using Microsoft Office Interop Assemblies (Office 2007) and ASP.NET 3.5. I'm able to merge the documents, but some of my formatting is missing (namely the fonts and images).
I am not an expert programmer and am just getting familiar with .NET office automation. I have two questions:
1. For me to create word documents from my code on a server, does word have to be installed on the server? My test server does not have word installed. Is there a way to have the code open word on the user's machine in this case?
2. I am trying out some code for creating word documents. It works fine on my machine. However, when I try to run it on server it gives me an error.. "Cannot create ActiveX component." Is this a permissions issue or related to the fact that the server does not have word installed?
How do I open/view Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) in a VB.NET Form? remember to mark the replies as answers if they and unmark them if they provide. Welcome to the All-In-One Code Framework! If you have any feedback,
I search a lot and couldn't find a code that really worked. So, I search more and after that, I wrote the following class. I hope that this code be useful for someone.First, add the following references to yours VB project:
I have a form with multiple checkboxes what I would like to do is to have it that if someone selects any combination of the checkboxes they could save those selections by pressing a button named save options or something to that affect it would then save those selections then they could load them by pressing another button load options and run them with another button named run options (or the box that loads could run too) not sure the best way to do it the goal is ultimately to have a button that allows the state of the checkboxes to be saved and then run as a custom option.
how would I do this I cannot find anything on the Internet ?
How do I add a opacity option to my custom control... I dont know what to do an I have googled multiple times but it must be possible somehow. but how. Does anyone know how? just for refrence I have no code on this bar my custom control.
http://127.0.0.1:47873/help/1-6644/ms.help?method=page&id=C318B79A-FA4D-4DE3-B62D-C1162BEB267E&product=VS&productVersion=100&topicVersion=100&locale=EN-US&topicLocale=EN-US and i get the following error
How can I give option to user to design there own reports? i.e. They should be able to define 1. Report Title 2. Reports Fields(When they click on Work Order button they should be able to view Work Order Table column and they should be able to select columns then a report should be composed. Then all the Column should be in the form datagrid. Is it possible.
I want to create some custom shapes for MS Office which we can use in house. For example I want to create a shape named "carton box" which have three - four default places where user can add some text. It is same as other shapes or I would say just like shapes (line, flowchart, arrow etc) in MS office 2007.
Is there any way to create and reuse such a new objects, also if user don't have these shape in their toolbox and get a document which includes these shapes; he should be able to see it (defiantly in read only).
Background - I am a .NET developer and also having small knowedge of MS office development in .NET.
I have made my program but I want to give users the option of choosing a custom color for text. I have an inputbox that works and then converts it to Color.whatever. But seeing as the user types in what they want and it is not done by the program itself it can throw exceptions.
Dim directresponse As String Dim actualcolor As String Dim isgood As Boolean
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That is my Sub, it will make Color.(userinput) but I need to check if Color.(userinput) is actually a color that VB.NET can understand and add set.
I have tried "System.Drawing.Color" I get told it is a type and cannot be used in this context.use System.ComponentModel.TypeDescriptor to convert it to a color and check if it is real and then set it.
my program lets people pick their color to highlight different shifts.after data manipulation they can export the shifts to Excel.I want Excel to show up the same colors as the users picked so I know I need to add them to the workbook palette.the first color I import works fine but after that, all the colors get jumbled and messed up and put in random spots in the palette
I've been asked to get the page counts for documents stored as tif files. What I have now is looping through our third party software to open them and then get the page count. I can't stop the image from flashing and it is very slow. Does anyone know of a way to loop through them quickly and can the page counts (one image can have many documents)?
I have used Visual Studio 2008 (VB) to create a custom tab and button group with custom buttons. When any of those buttons are clicked, I simply want to run a macro (add-in) that will already be loaded when Excel is launched. The main examples I've seen create an Excel object in the VB code and then call the macro, but that seems like unnecessary overhead, since the custom buttons are are already loaded into Excel.
i'm relatively new to outlook task creation from visual basic.when i create an outlook task, i want to insert a link with a custom string..url...instead of the left screen, i would like to come up with the right screen.by the way, i'm using visual studio 2005, microsoft outlook 2003 and outlook interop from outlook 2003.[code]
I really like the coding speed that vb.net provides, but I don't like the possibility to forget to declare variable types, return types of functions, etc. and that is why in each class I use[code]..
Is there a way to define those two options on the project/solution level?
the combo box style 1 has both the drop down option but also a manual entry option. I need to know how to code it so that when you manually enter data, it takes that data and places it in a text message "The shipping charges for "data" is $15" displaying in a text box. Shouldn't be hard but have developed a mind block.
I posted a while ago asking how to manage correlative updates: url...I made that post under the assumption that the direct link i had in place (an attachment on a google site) would not change. Unfortunately I overlooked the fact that google sites use redirect links, just a hair short of direct links. I've heard of FTP Protocols and noticed threads in the c# sections on how to code them, but I don't know much about them. I really need an internet access link for my pgroam to download the file from and am not sure on what the best approach is to this problem. Please advise...I seek not answers, but understanding, that I may not solve, but learn.
We have a form that hosts the WebBrowser control. That is the only control on the form.We pass the form the file path of a temporary PDF file and it does:WebBrowser1.Navigate(Me._PathToPdf)When the form is closing, it navigates away from the PDF file:
WebBrowser1.Hide() WebBrowser1.Navigate("about:blank") Do Until WebBrowser1.ReadyState = WebBrowserReadyState.Complete
I want to allow the end user to write vb.net code within my application that will interact with my application and database. I have seen software like this, such as GE iFix, Excel, and others.
I have a working WCF, it is written in VB. I need to host it in Windows Services on a remote server. I cannot use IIS (they uninstalled after I had it installed). Specs are to host in Windows Services, the only way I can get around that is to quit.
I have developed a website using ASP.NET/VB + SqlServer 2008 and Dotnetnuke CMS.Now I have to host it on easycgi.com I have some questions:How should I restore my db (unfortunately easycgi supports just sqlserver 2005) so what should I do to convert my db to 2005?and what should I do to host my website (step-by-step "please").
I've created a WCF service and, with help of others from this site and the department I work in, the WCF service is running as a service on my development machine. Tested it with a console app and it works.But, it's not supposed to be on my development machine. It needs to be on a different server.This is difficult because the server it is supposed to reside on DOES NOT have Visual Studio installed on it.So I cannot run the VS 2008 Command Prompt with installutil to run the WCF service as a service on that server.
