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Luc Pattyn10-Dec-09 6:11

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10-Dec-09 6:11

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Luc Pattyn wrote:
Nigeria doesn't have any 787s

Well of course not! They are still far too heavy!

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Luc Pattyn10-Dec-09 6:12

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Nah. Maintenance requirements are too high.

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Dave Kreskowiak10-Dec-09 9:45

Office 2007 Word automation - setting default conversion for InsertFile

10-Dec-09 9:45

Aiham2424 wrote:
Iwait reply..................

And that reply would be a resounding "NO!"

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Sibble10-Dec-09 4:21

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10-Dec-09 4:21

Hi
I need to insert some HTML-styled text into a Word 2007 document. As far as I know you cannot directly insert HTML into Word, because it needs to be converted first. So I save the HTML as a temporary file and use InsertRange to insert it into my document.

Here is my code:

string TempFileSaveDir = "c:\\word";

private void InsertHTML(Document pDoc, string pHTML)
{
    Guid _guid = Guid.NewGuid();

    string _fileName = TempFileSaveDir + "\\" + _guid.ToString() + ".html";
    TextWriter tw = new StreamWriter(_fileName, false, Encoding.UTF8);            
    tw.Write(pHTML);
    tw.Close();

    object start = 0;
    object end = 0;
    object ConfirmConversions = false;
    object Link = false;
    object Attachment = false;
    object missing = System.Type.Missing;

    Word.Range _range1 = pDoc.Range(ref start, ref end);
    _range1.InsertFile(_fileName, ref missing, ref ConfirmConversions, ref Link, ref Attachment);

    File.Delete(_fileName);
}

Now my problem is, that Word sees it as regular text rather than HTML, so if I have <b>Some Text</b> in my HTML it'll show the B tags instead of bolded text.
I noticed that when I set ConfirmConversions to true I get a popup, where I can select the HTML conversion. Is there a way to have the converter automaticly use this conversion without prompting the user every time?

Regards

Re: Office 2007 Word automation - setting default conversion for InsertFile

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.14-Dec-09 3:17

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14-Dec-09 3:17

This looks like a word for word copy of a post on the Microsoft Forums a month back, and is now cross-posted to 'Quick Answers' here[^].

The Microsoft forum post is here[^]

Is there a problem with the solution suggested on that forum?

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Sr...Frank10-Dec-09 4:00

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Re: System Dialog!

Eddy Vluggen10-Dec-09 4:08

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10-Dec-09 4:08

That's not easy to do; applications shouldn't hijack the entire computer just to ask the user a question.

Perhaps you could create your own desktop[^], and display the form there Smile | :)

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Re: System Dialog! My vote of 1. [modified]

Keith Barrow10-Dec-09 4:09

10-Dec-09 4:09

I'm sure if you google for a c# shutdown dialog, you get something.

You don't seriously expect us to provide you with the code, I've had a look at your message history, and you have a habit of doing this, or asking trivial questions that can be answered with a simple search.

I suggest you try something, then let us know what went wrong specifically, this is not a website where people just do your work for you.

[Edit]
Also see Eddie's answer, which he posted when I was writing this.

modified on Thursday, December 10, 2009 10:16 AM

Re: System Dialog!

Dave Kreskowiak10-Dec-09 4:21

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10-Dec-09 4:21

System Modal dialogs do not exist in Windows NT and above. They only existed in Windows 9x and below.

Don't try to tell me that this isn't true and point to the shutdown dialog. That's not a system modal dialog.

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Dave Kreskowiak10-Dec-09 4:17

Re: PROBLEM PORTING APP ON VISTA :INTERFACE IS DULL ON VISTA

10-Dec-09 4:17

There are classes and libraries that can do this and make it look different, but I think what your asking about is how to make a WPF app (Windows Presentation Foundation). That requires .NET 3.0 or above and a considerable rewrite of your application, since WPF doesn't work anything like Windows Forms.

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Omoniyi Ogunderu28-Dec-09 6:34

Omoniyi Ogunderu

28-Dec-09 6:34

thanks for your response. but i dont want to write the whole app in wpf. could you please email me the classes i can add to my winform so that it will have a good look on vista. thanks. OMONIYI Ogunderu.

omoniyiogunderu@yahoo.com

Re: PROBLEM PORTING APP ON VISTA :INTERFACE IS DULL ON VISTA

Dave Kreskowiak28-Dec-09 15:15

Re: PROBLEM PORTING APP ON VISTA :INTERFACE IS DULL ON VISTA

28-Dec-09 15:15

Omoniyi Ogunderu wrote:
could you please email me the classes i can add to my winform

No. I don't care about your email address and the only classes in the .NET Framework that will do this are in WPF. There are no other classes in the .NET Framework that will make your app look "pretty".

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Keith Barrow10-Dec-09 4:22

your idea plz: customer account number

10-Dec-09 4:22

It sounds like you need to port to WPF (there was, for me, a fair learning curve) as the old winforms stuff just isn't as flexible as WPF in terms of display and will lookk flat. WPF has built-in themes such as:

PresentationFramework.Aero
PresentationFramework.Classic
PresentationFramework.Luna
PresentationFramework.Royale

You can also download themes to skin your application as well

Here is a source.
http://www.codeplex.com/wpfthemes[^]

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Jassim Rahma10-Dec-09 3:19

Jassim Rahma

10-Dec-09 3:19

can you please tell me your idea plz..

I want to create an accoutn number for every customer when they entered his details in my C# application..

and of course it must be unqiue account number

I though of the following:

DayOfYear + Month + Day + DayOfWeek + the_primary_key_from_customer_table

any other better idea?

Keith Barrow10-Dec-09 3:37

10-Dec-09 3:37

the_primary_key_from_customer_table should be enough.Just have a RegisterdDate column that is datestamped the the user is set up if you need to know this info, I wouldn't put it on the primary key.

Another common thing is to register a user with their e-mail address, each of which is unique (but a user might have > 1e-mail addess), but you need to ensure that all potential users have an e-mail before using this method. This way you can send a confirmation e-mail to ensure they are in charge of the address.

You could also generate a GUID to identify the user and use that as a PK.

Note that whatever you do, preventing a user from registering twice under different accounts is fatastically difficult (or possibly impossible!).

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Jassim Rahma10-Dec-09 3:48

Jassim Rahma

10-Dec-09 3:48

no but thisis to be printed on the invoice of the customer so email and guid won't be ok..

what i wanted is something like a long number just to avoid tell customer that your account number is# 1 or #2

Andrew Rissing10-Dec-09 3:56

Andrew Rissing

10-Dec-09 3:56

You could just start your seed for your customer table at something like 10,000 or something.

Keith Barrow10-Dec-09 3:59

10-Dec-09 3:59

Now I understand what you want a bit better. Even if the you have customer no 1 it can still be printed 00000001.

You just need to decide how many digits you want at the outset though you can add more leading zeros if necessary. This will also free up more keys given the same number of digits, as you don't tie the key to the date which uses the first 8 up according to your scheme.

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Eddy Vluggen10-Dec-09 4:43

Eddy Vluggen

10-Dec-09 4:43

I'd suggest not using the PK; sometimes people want to change their number, for whatever reason, and you'd have to update all the references.

Add an extra identity-field, set the seed to 8738234 and increment with 1 Smile | :)

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