C# Discussion Boards - CodeProject

Re: Changing value of several comboboxes

Denis J. González2-Sep-09 17:24

Denis J. González

2-Sep-09 17:24

Ok.. Thanks.. That's all I wanted to know...

help file

AAKAra2-Sep-09 10:54

AAKAra

2-Sep-09 10:54

Hello,
I have a pdf file that has the whole help stuff in it. Based on the helpId(Which form the user has selected) I should display the correct help page.

Will this below code serve my purpose?

ProcessStartInfo startInfo = new ProcessStartInfo();
startInfo.FileName = "Guide.pdf";
startInfo.Verb = helpId;
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(startInfo);

Re: help file

Christian Graus2-Sep-09 11:22

Christian Graus

2-Sep-09 11:22

This is programming, it's not black magic. You can't just go around making stuff up and expect it to magically do what you want it to. Instead, you should use reference books and google to research the tools you are using.

No. Of course not. You've taken a random property and tried to make it magically do what you want. The verb is a predefined term like 'run' or 'print' that tells the process what to do. There is no way that I know of to make a PDF open on a specific page. You'd have to read the Acrobat documentation to see if it's possible to pass any parameters to Acrobat, to tell it what page to open. As you appear incapable of research, I'll tell you that Arguments is the property on ProcessStartInfo you use to pass an argument to a program. But, you need to find out for yourself if Acrobat will take an argument to do what you want it to.

Christian Graus

Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.

Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

Re: help file

Abhishek Sur2-Sep-09 11:54

Abhishek Sur

2-Sep-09 11:54

AAKAra wrote:
startInfo.Verb = helpId;

You are saying that if you set verb of Process, it will open helpId. It cant do that. I think you need to read API documentation or use some library that might do your job. Atleast you need to open the PDF to your own viewer to have better control rather than opening in Acrobat Reader directly. Cool | :cool:

Abhishek Sur

My Latest Articles
Create CLR objects in SQL Server 2005
C# Uncommon Keywords
Read/Write Excel using OleDB
Don't forget to click "Good Answer" if you like to.

Re: help file

Christian Graus2-Sep-09 13:38

Christian Graus

2-Sep-09 13:38

Abhishek Sur wrote:
Atleast you need to open the PDF to your own viewer to have better control rather than opening in Acrobat Reader directly.

Those libraries are not cheap. What's the bet this guy is only interested in free solutions ?

Christian Graus

Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.

Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

Re: help file

Abhishek Sur2-Sep-09 21:30

Abhishek Sur

2-Sep-09 21:30

I think he will find interest in this .. .
PDF Viewer Control Without Acrobat Reader Installed[^]

Big Grin | :-D

Abhishek Sur

My Latest Articles
Create CLR objects in SQL Server 2005
C# Uncommon Keywords
Read/Write Excel using OleDB
Don't forget to click "Good Answer" if you like to.

Re: help file

N a v a n e e t h2-Sep-09 15:55

N a v a n e e t h

2-Sep-09 15:55

I don't think you can do this using PDF files. If you can make your help files to a CHM file, work with Help.ShowHelp()[^] method by providing appropriate HelpNavigator value.

Navaneeth

How to use google | Ask smart questions

Date Format in C#

skhan172-Sep-09 10:20

skhan17

2-Sep-09 10:20

Hello,
I am using a MSAccess database date entered into the database are Medium date format ie. dd-mmm-yy format. But when the data is pulled from the db and shown into a datagrid, it's like mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss. But I want only the medium date that is dd-mm-yy format(18-Aug-09). Please help.
Thanks in advance.

Re: Date Format in C#

Christian Graus2-Sep-09 11:25

Christian Graus

2-Sep-09 11:25

Any half decent database, stores a date as a date. That means, it does NOT store a string in any special format. It stores actual date information. So, in C#, you will end up with a DateTime object, instead of a string. And you can format that any way you like.

Christian Graus

Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.

Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

Re: Date Format in C#

Abhishek Sur2-Sep-09 11:47

Abhishek Sur

2-Sep-09 11:47

Actually this happens as your Localized regional datetime settings is dd-mm-yy.
To format use

DateTime.ParseExact(datestring, "dd-mmm-yy", new CultureInfo("en-US"))

Rose | [Rose]

Abhishek Sur

My Latest Articles
Create CLR objects in SQL Server 2005
C# Uncommon Keywords
Read/Write Excel using OleDB
Don't forget to click "Good Answer" if you like to.

urgent: has anyone used mcore?

maham siddiqui2-Sep-09 8:14

maham siddiqui

2-Sep-09 8:14

i want to recieve sms using mcore library. But im getting an error: "invalid response to the message sommand"
if anyone has used mcore, can he or she help me out? its really urgent

plzzzz plzz plzzz reply Cry | :((

Re: urgent: has anyone used mcore?

Dave Kreskowiak2-Sep-09 8:35

Dave Kreskowiak

2-Sep-09 8:35

If it's that important, you're best source of information is going to be the people who wrote the library. I'm guessing that would be Infospace.

A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^]

Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP
Visual Developer - Visual Basic
2006, 2007, 2008
But no longer in 2009...

Re: urgent: has anyone used mcore?

maham siddiqui2-Sep-09 9:23

maham siddiqui

2-Sep-09 9:23

thank you

Re: urgent: has anyone used mcore?

Manas Bhardwaj2-Sep-09 9:12

Manas Bhardwaj

2-Sep-09 9:12

This may be urgent only for you. And putting this in subject line is considered as rude.

Manas Bhardwaj
Please remember to rate helpful or unhelpful answers, it lets us and people reading the forums know if our answers are any good.

Re: urgent: has anyone used mcore?

riced2-Sep-09 13:34

riced

2-Sep-09 13:34

maham siddiqui wrote:
plzzzz plzz plzzz reply

icnthlp

Regards
David R
---------------------------------------------------------------
"Every program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble." - Alan Perlis

how to detect the default email client?

Jassim Rahma2-Sep-09 7:52

Jassim Rahma

2-Sep-09 7:52

I want to know how can I detect which email client is the default on the system using C#?

Re: how to detect the default email client?

stancrm2-Sep-09 8:03

stancrm

2-Sep-09 8:03

Just read the registry :

http://www.downloadatoz.com/windows-registry/faq,how-to-change-the-default-mail-client-through-registry.html[^]

Re: how to detect the default email client?

rajeev Ujlayan22-Oct-09 20:02

rajeev Ujlayan

22-Oct-09 20:02

I am working on one apllication and now i am testing with windows7 but as we all know that there is no email-option available in windows7.but i want to make my code very generic that it should detact the default email client and if client not availble then display some genaric message like "perticular email client not availbel ".

Please suggest me on the same asap.

regards
raj

How the c#.net print functionality is working

veejay_veejay2-Sep-09 7:24

veejay_veejay

2-Sep-09 7:24

Hi,

I am developing the Text editor using c#.net
I want to implement print functionality and the printed pages should be WYSIWYG format

In my application I am using rich textbox control which acts as a single page, so for every page I am using a new rich text box control. When ever I have tried to print then the printed content should be like WYSIWYG format

Thanks
Vijay Kommalapati

Re: How the c#.net print functionality is working

Manas Bhardwaj2-Sep-09 9:13

Manas Bhardwaj

2-Sep-09 9:13

veejay_veejay wrote:
In my application I am using rich textbox control which acts as a single page, so for every page I am using a new rich text box control. When ever I have tried to print then the printed content should be like WYSIWYG form

What have done so far?
Where is the problem?

Manas Bhardwaj
Please remember to rate helpful or unhelpful answers, it lets us and people reading the forums know if our answers are any good.

Re: How the c#.net print functionality is working

stancrm2-Sep-09 19:03

stancrm

2-Sep-09 19:03

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.printing.printdocument.aspx[^]

open doc file in c#

tanweer2-Sep-09 7:05

tanweer

2-Sep-09 7:05

hello
i m unabale to open doc file in c#
can any body help me plz

Re: open doc file in c#

Manas Bhardwaj2-Sep-09 9:14

Manas Bhardwaj

2-Sep-09 9:14

Here [^]is the solution

Manas Bhardwaj
Please remember to rate helpful or unhelpful answers, it lets us and people reading the forums know if our answers are any good.

Printer

JollyMansArt2-Sep-09 5:47

JollyMansArt

2-Sep-09 5:47

I have been asked to build a command prompt based application that will bypass the printer driver and connect directly to the printer to print? Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do this. And How to build a printers INIT string?

Re: Printer

Christian Graus2-Sep-09 11:24

Christian Graus

2-Sep-09 11:24

Why have you been asked to do something that you plainly don't know how to do ? What resources were you given to do this ? Or did you start on the job today and were given a task and the URL to code project, so we'd do it for you ?

I imagine this is a pretty complex task, and I'd have thought C++ would be better suited to it, than C#.

Christian Graus

Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.

Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

Use Ctrl+Left/Right to switch messages, Ctrl+Up/Down to switch threads, Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right to switch pages.