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I am working with Visual Studio 2005 in C#. I would like to programatically create Word documents. That is, I would like to access the Word object model.
Can I do that with VS 2005? I am reading something about Visual Studio Tools for Office. Do I need that? Or can I just use VS 2005.
Are there class libraries I need to obtain?
Thanks,
Mark
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I could be wrong here, but I don't think you need VSTFO to work with office and VS 2005. Just make a reference to the Word object library and go to town.
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You are write, you just need to add reference to the Word Object Library.
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Hi,
A datagridview is re-populated from a datatable every so often, i.e. every 10 seconds. I am using a timer to trigger the re-population.
Now I would like to move a step forward by checking which cells have changed.
I would like to know which cell(s) have changed so that particular cell gets a new colour for a few moments.
For example if the data in column 5, row 2 has changed then that cell changes colour for a few seconds and the same for any other changed cells.
This is basically a realtime application to show the changes as they happen.
How does the datagridview allow for such a task?
Thanks
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I think so DataGridView doesn't have something like this. Maybe you will have to implement it...
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I know of no built-in functions that would perform what you are describing.
One thing I'm thinking is that you make a copy of the DataTable DataGridViewRowCollection belinging to your DataGridView or before you perform your update. After the update, run through every cell in the new table or collection and compare that with the old one. If it's the same, change the color of the appropriate cell. To save on processes, you restrict your comparison to only the visible rows by using the FirstDisplayedScrollingRowIndex property.
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Hi everybody.
I'am working in a web page and I want to open a save as dialog box when the client click on the download botton, and, obviously, download a file to the path that he desired.
I need to capture the path where he want to save the file? I do this from the save as dialog box that I don't now make it?
FYI, i cant use system.windows.form in the web. that's OK?
thanks a lot.
caradri.
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SaveFileDialog dlg = new SaveFileDialog();
if (DialogResult.OK == dlg.ShowDialog())
{
MessageBox.Show(dlg.FileName);
}
That will display a basic
SaveFileDialog<code> and when the user saves the file, it will display the full path to the file. You shoulld be able to figure out how to change all the different bells and whistles from there. <br />
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Justin Perez wrote: SaveFileDialog dlg = new SaveFileDialog(); if (DialogResult.OK == dlg.ShowDialog()) { MessageBox.Show(dlg.FileName); }
He is asking about in a web application on a web browser. This wouldn't work in that case.
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: He is asking about in a web application on a web browser. This wouldn't work in that case.
Ah. Didn't see that 
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caradri wrote: I'am working in a web page and I want to open a save as dialog box when the client click on the download botton, and, obviously, download a file to the path that he desired.
Check out this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/260519[^]
caradri wrote: I need to capture the path where he want to save the file? I do this from the save as dialog box that I don't now make it?
You can not do this and you need not. The file saving would be handled by the web browser itself.
caradri wrote: cant use system.windows.form in the web. that's OK
That's correct.
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Hi,
how can I call static method on a Type variable, when following is known:
- there is a Class 'A', which implements a static method - public static int GetValue().
- there may by several subclasses 'B, C ,D ,E' where all of them derive from A , so they all derive GetValue() method.
- some of subclasses may want to override GetValue() ( declare public new static int GetValue()) and return different value than parent class ('A') returns.
now, I have a variable of type Type :
Type myType;
and I know that myType contains one of subclasses of A class.
how can I call static GetValue() on myType (withount instantiating it!!!)
I hope it's not confusing )
thanx
zilo
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MethodInfo inf = myType.GetMethod("GetValue");
inf.Invoke(null, new object[] parameters );
if it's static it will ignore the first parameter (null);
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thanx
that's what I used, but I (am) was curious if there is a "nicer" way how to do that.
zilo
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Well, guess you could use generics too, if reflection isn't nice enough for you (although that's not necessarily better way to do)
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ok, it works, but the thing is, that when GetValue is not overridden in subclass, reflection doesn't return parent method but null. And when I think about it, it's probably better that way. I can call parent method anyway...
zilo
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Guess it's better with generics then, cuz you don't have to worry about wether it overrides or just inherits.
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Can you be more specific how to do that with generics?
Anyway , I can't use generics, cause that method is a part of a control (Form) and there is a bug regarding Designer and generics. It would not display child classes (Forms) in Designer at all. It's bug by design...
zilo
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Involved not changing return types. Another option is to create a generic method.
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Hi All,
I'm attempting to test if a high bit is set on a octet. C# is stating:
An unhandled exception of type 'System.OverflowException' occurred in mscorlib.dll
Additional information: Value was either too large or too small for an unsigned byte. Any ideas how to work with bit values in C# without losing semantics (readability)? At this point, I'd also take something that works as expected (or works as I expect).
Jeff
ArrayList Octets = new ArrayList();
...
Int32 i=0;
while( i < Octets.Count )
{
Byte b = Byte.Parse(Octets[i].ToString());
b &= unchecked(Convert.ToByte(~0x80));
if( 0x00 == b ) { break; }
....
i++;
}
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Hi Jeffrey,
I am not sure what type it is you originally put into the ArrayList, I will assume the
item type is byte.
Here are some ideas:
- I see no point in using Parse(...ToString()), that is turning a number to a string to
get a number again. why not treat the ArrayList item directly? Of course ArrayList only
returns type object, so you would have to cast to the original type, as in
(byte)Octets[i]
- in general, bit manipulations are easiest on unsigned numbers, so byte is OK
- your problem statement is not doing what you intend: ANDing with the complement of 0x80
is ANDing with 0x7F, that is stripping off the highest bit; a subsequent zero-test will
return true iff the original value was either 0x00 or 0x80.
- testing any bit can be achieved by ANDing and comparing to zero; testing the highest bit
would require something like: if ((b & bMSB)!=0) MSB_is_set; else MSB_is_clear;
where bMSB could be a byte variable initialized to 0x80u (u suffix for unsigned).
- you can use foreach instead of for to iterate over a collection. It does not need
an index variable, you can and must specify both the type and the name of the object itself
you are getting from the collection; as a bonus you don't need to cast the ArrayList
element anymore.
So this is what I would suggest:
byte bMSB=0x80u;
ArrayList Octets = new ArrayList();
...
foreach (byte b in Octets) {
if((b & bMSB)!=0) break;
....
}
Furthermore, you could use a generic collection (available since .NET 2.0), in this case
a List<byte> instead of an ArrayList, although the difference would be minor here.
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Hi Luc,
Thank you very much for the comprehensive response. Here's the next issue (I did not like the ToString() calls either). Changing:
Byte.Parse(Octets[0].ToString()) to
(Byte)Octets[0] reults in Compiler Error:Error CS0201: Only assignment, call, increment, decrement, and new object expressions can be used as a statement
More awkwardness: changing from Parse() and ToString() to
(Int32)Octets[0] / 40 results in Runtime Error:An unhandled exception of type 'System.InvalidCastException' occurred in OIDFetch.exe
Additional information: Specified cast is not valid.
This is frustrating. I can understand abstracting away bit operations due to code portability. But when did operations on numbers stop being number-centric?
The situation reminds me of Java. Trying to read a file results in so many casts to so many readers, you lose the readability (semantics) of what you are trying to accomplish: FileReaders to ByteReaders to StreamReaders... I never went back to Java after college.
Jeff
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Hi Jeff,
I agree one should avoid casts most of the time.
In what I explained, there basically was only one, and that one is due to the fact
that ArrayList stores objects, not known types, so when retrieving an ArrayList element,
you must cast it again to its real type. (The new List<byte> alternative solves that!)
I cannot figure out what is causing your compile error CS0201; I would need a larger
code snippet (yours is less than one statement, there is no semicolon, no curly bracket).
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Jeff, some casting is going on here because you're using old stuff, ArrayList. Use List<byte> for the octets, and you won't need any casting.
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Hi Judah,
Thanks. I found it in System.Collections.Generic.List<byte>. Time for another rewrite (copy and paste is my friend).
Jeff
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