Dear Ram, Thank you very much for that. I think I will stick with the ItextSharp. I can extend this to any application, like powerpoint, word and excel etc.??? I mean if my file is not pdf but also consists of .doc, .txt, or . ppt, .xls? Regards, Amit

I want to build a C# application with integrated acrobat reader. I will have a list of the left hand side which is a list of links of pdf files I have on my computer and when I click the required pdf file link on left, pdf file must display on the right hand side of the application inside a pdf reader. I am currently having 100 pdf files for my literature review ( I am a PHD student :D) and it has reached a state where its unmanagable. I am a pretty OKAy coder in C#. But I simply don't know how to go about this. Any help will be highly aprreciated. Regards, Amit

Thanks :) Zitniet

Thanks Senthil! As a matter of fact, I want to use your control for one of my applications. But I have seen one problem with that, I can't come out of the directory in which the testapp.exe is staying, i.e. as I start the application and type the following command. >>> cd .. it does not work. I woudl like to hear from you before I get into your code and figure out what is going on. And also I had asked this question in the forum and Nobody could answer me. Can I change the opacity of the control? Regards, Amit

Thanks for the answer. It, indeed, answers most of my initial questions. Now, I am trying to write a wrapper for LAPACK [http://www.netlib.org/clapack/faq.html], which is available in C and FORTRAN in C#. It is a highly optimized linear algebra subroutines. Do you have any idea about a place where I can go to learn the secret of the "writing wrappers in C#" business. Thanks and Regards, Amit -- modified at 20:24 Friday 26th August, 2005

I have noticed that I need not put any DLLImport statements in Windows application if I am using some DLLs. I just need to add those DLLs in the reference and then use it. My question is when is it necessary to have a DLLImport statement in my C# code? Thanks and Regards, Amit

I have come across this wrapper word many times. Many people have written wrappers for C# for subrountines which are not written in C#. My question is what this wrapper is and how it can be used as to include other sub-routines in a C# application?. Regards and Thanks, Amit

Are you an engineering student? HAve you worked on any simulation software such as SIMULINK, FLUENT, SYMBOLS 2000. They all are engineering softwares for simulating different engineering systems. I want to know how to develop an application such as simulink drawing pad, one which you can drop different objects from the library to the drawing board and then connect them and the simulate the whole system. The objects behaviour as well-defined previously and they interact with each other as time progress and the final output is shown. In one line, how to go about creating another SIMULINK, as MAthWorks people done? how to creat a drawing software liek say MS Paint which has some predefined library shapes Can this be done with C#? This is the place where I think my problem is explained better. http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~amohanty/SimulationPad.pdf[^] I don't really need a solution to this problem in this forum, but all I want is one or two lead to start working on that. REgards, Amit -- modified at 0:06 Friday 26th August, 2005

Worked...Worked...Worked..:d...Actually, that is the Resize method. Thanks..Gotta work for the opacity of the shellcontrol..Regards..Amit

lil more on onSize method may help me, Chris..I am not sure how I want to do that.

Can I possibly use panel and write this.tabControl1.Width=this.ClientSize.Width/3; something like that..let me try and see

Thanks..I think I will ask Senthil if anything can be done about the opacity property. Basically i think now I have to learn how to write a windows control library. Am I right? But I am not able to find a good tutorial to start with.. Anyway, great job, Chris..I really appreciate it. If I ever develop a commercial application I think I sud give you half of my money ;).. Regards, Amit

Any help available Christian?

Hi, I think I am not sure how to set the docking properties in an application may be. I am using the ShellControl control [^]which was written by Senthil. I have created an application and I am using a splitter in this application and pn the right side of the application is a tab control for displaying one treeview and one listview.(it is still not there in the application though) My Problem is that I am not able to fix the width of the different parts. I want the table control be the 1/3 of the application window and the shellcontrol window be 2/3 of the width. How I do it? Because when I maximize the application window, the application looks funny. You can find the application I wrote here. http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~amohanty/4_ShellControl.zip Also, I want to add the opacity property to the ShellControl[http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/shellcontrol.asp] control. How do I do it? Senthil has not set the opacity property. I want my application to look little cool. So I want to have the opacity, which I can control. I guess it is possible to control the opacity of the elements of an application, which doees not affect the opacity of the whole application window.

Thanks Guffa. Which are the operating systems that support the .net framework? Like if I creat a .exe in C# will it run on win98 and older version. Do those operating systems support the framework? And, can we develop applications for Linux Using C#? Amit

what are the advantages that we have in managed code over unmanaged code? This security stuff is justa out of my mind. Any help please. If I am writing a sofwrae, say a windows application , is it necessary to have take all security mmeasures? I think security is something associated with internet. I am such a naive. I am a 5 year kid may be. Amit

One of the interesting problem I have encountered is that I can't find any library in C# for linear alegbra ..Something like LAPACK( Linear Algebra Pakage: If you have not heard it go here). Anyone has any idea if such library exists for C# or is there anyway the existing library can be used in a C# code? Regards,

Did anyone come across any idea how to plot data in C#, without using OpenGl? I want to plot few 3D graphs.

Dear Senthil, Thanks a lot. I think your last message cleared almost everything I wanted to know. Right now, I am trying to understand your code. The command promt control tool, you have designed , is it a multiline textbox control? I wanted to fundamental building unit of the command promt you have used to make the shell command. Regards, Amit

Dear Senthil, Thanks for your reply. In fact your code is my inspiration. I just don't want a command line interpretor like cmd.exe. I want a more powerful add-in components. I am trying to write a computational software. My idea is something like this. >> A=[1,2,3;3,4,5;6,7,8]; output should be displayed in the command prompt A=[1,2,3; 3,4,5; 6,7,8]; This should define a matrix A. >>Inverse(A) this should call function Inverse and display the result from the function Inverse. So, i want to know how modification I need to make in your code to understand these kind of commands at my command promt in the software. Regards, Amit