I want to use ActiveX in my .NET CF project
as Microsoft explained at this link:
Hosting ActiveX Controls in the .NET Compact Framework 2.0
I need to download Host_ActiveX_Controls.msi but link is dead
any other solution or valid link to Host_ActiveX_Controls.msi is needed
The code in the original article had a leak in it anyway, so the fact that it's down maybe isn't such a bad thing. There's an updated, non-leaky version hosted on my blog here.
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I have a 3rd party legacy app that requires a VB6 Active X EXE library interface. I am looking to update the VB6 Active X EXE library to a currently supported language. As the legacy host application is from a 3rd party I do not have the ability to change the host API to use an interface other than ActiveX EXE. Is there any currently supported Microsoft language i.e., x86 C++, C++/CLI, C# or VB.NET that can create the equivalent of an ActiveX EXE interface?
I suspect the answer is no but am looking for a definitive response saying so. That any legacy host application using ActiveX EXE library must be itself be modified to allow the use of supported languages and tools. Basically confirming that effectively ActiveX EXE is now an unsupported API interface.
I've already looked at this similar question and from it one could deduce that the answer is no but there is no definitive response. I've also looked at this Microsoft Tutorial and from what I can tell it talks about updating the host application which isn't an option in this case. The tutorial talks about switching to an ActiveX DLL but my understanding is that this would require a change to the 3rd party host application. Again that is not an option in my case. I need something that looks like an ActiveX EXE library to the host.
If you are sure that an ActiveX Exe is required, have you considered just using VB6 to create the that as a thin shim and then have it delegate all implementation to a .NET assembly? You probably would never need to recompile the Exe again, unless the 3rd party vendor is still expanding their interface.
If you post some more information about the VB6 Active X EXE library interface, I might be able to refine this solution with specific code samples. Presumably your Active X Exe must implement a provided interface?
New project in Visual Basic using Visual Studio 2013.
Want to add the "Microsoft Internet Controls" component but I can't find it.
What am I missing?
This is the second link on Google:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-customize/cant-find-reference-to-microsoft-internet-controls/e138ff0c-8046-47b1-9c0c-ac28cebe3c7a
Apparently it may have been renamed "Microsoft Browser Helpers" and you may need to add a reference to "ieframe.dll".
If you need FTP, it is fully supported in the .NET framework. You could start with the examples on MSDN: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms229718%28v=vs.110%29.aspx
The inet1 Internet Transfer Control is installed with MS Office. Install it and you should have no problem having it become available to use in Visual Studio etc.
It's old but still completely useful in apps. It did all the FTP and HTTP calls for a web crawler I wrote years ago and was fast and completely error-free when crawling 100s of 1000s of web pages at a time while I slept. I'd use inet1 today if I was writing an app that did huge amounts of internet calls as quickly as possible.
It is my understanding that JumpList implementation using Windows API Code Pack is now depreciated as Microsoft now supports JumpList directly through Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.shell.taskbariteminfo.aspx
I can see that it is possible to set progress etc. to the Taskbar Item in their examples; however I have struggled so much to implement this on a Windows Form.
I had successfully managed to implement JumpList and TaskBarItem progress using Windows API Pack in the past http://code.google.com/p/zscreen/source/browse/trunk/ZScreen/Forms/ZScreenConfigGUI.cs#277 but I want to move away from this dependency and utilise the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 instead.
Your advice is much appreciated.
Thanks
Mike
System.Windows.Application is in the presentation framework(PresentationFramework.dll) i.e. WPF. It does not exist in Winforms. So use Windows API Code Pack like here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsdesktop/Jump-List-with-Windows-db005b99
WPF 4 provides a native support for Jump List. Instead, if we use
Windows Forms, we must adopt the Windows API Code Pack, a managed
wrapper that allows to access to the Windows API functions. Available
on NuGet too, it provides all you need to manage Jump Lists within our
Windows Forms Applications.
Another example here: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/103913/How-to-Create-a-Custom-Jumplist-with-Custom-Events
It is my understanding that JumpList implementation using Windows API
Code Pack is now depreciated
Its not deprecated, its also a part of new .net 4 features but for WPF. For winforms, you will still have to use the pack like mentioned above.
Is there any SDK available to convert MS word and Excel files to PDF ? I wan to do it on Web Server at run time. Im using VS 2010, .Net Framewrok 4.0
I looked into MS interop assembly but then this artical pushed me back http://support.microsoft.com/kb/257757
is there any thirdparty tool/SDK/Service available that will do that at runtime?
Check out iText, there is a Java and C# library however I think the .NET library is not free. http://www.itextpdf.com/
If you are after perfect conversion then there is no real solution available / viable other than somehow involving Office. Plain MS-Interop is a nightmare and very unreliable, but there are good third party solutions available.
Give the Muhimbi PDF Converter Services a look. It installs in your environment as a scalable and robust Windows Service and has specifically been designed for use from server based applications such as ASP.NET.
It comes with a friendly web services based interface that allows it to be used from most modern environments such as Java and .NET. It supports all common as well as some not so common file formats. Watermarking and PDF Security is included as well. If you have SharePoint in your environment then a SharePoint optimised version is available as well.
Disclaimer, I have worked on this product so the usual disclaimers apply. Having said that, it works great.
You can use the Save as function which is already available in Microsoft.Office.Interop
doc.SaveAs(ref FileName, Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdSaveFormat.wdFormatPDF);
Does anyone know if there exist a dll in windows (2003 server) which I can call to calculate a MD5/SHA1 hash for a string?
I've written a .dll in C# that do this but I'm not allowed to use this because of company regulations for our servers.
/Ausgar
If you do have a .NET 2.0 installed (which I think you do), then yes, there is one.
It's accessible via COM as System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider and System.Security.Cryptography.HMACSHA1, respectively.
It's no use to implent it in C# as C# relies on .NET and .NET has implemented it for you already.
P.S. If there is no .NET on your system or you reluct at using .NET/COM for some reason, then there is sample using Microsoft Crypto API.
Have you tried openSSL?
(e.g. there are precompiled libeay32.dll and libssl32.dll files for windows, I'm not sure where the docs are that describe the DLL functions available in each of those, though)