Hi, no i am not creating the pdf files, but if you can send me the api anyways i will appreciate it. thanks. just pm me and i'll give you my email address.

You need to add the TreeView control to the control hierarchy of the current Page, also the rendering will cause the error if the form does not get rendered or the Page is not in the callback. I'm curious that why you don't just add the TreeView control to the Page and leave it render normally.

The reason that it's not creating the object is cos COM (ActiveX) uses the registry to map class IDs to filenames. When you register a component, the mapping is added into the registry under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT. Without the registration, the COM subsystem doesn't know where to find the dll that you want - doesn't matter if you give it a classid or a progid. If I remember correctly (and HIGH probability that I don't!) can specify a filename rather that a progid / clsid to CoCreateInstance...maybe someone more knowledgable could shed some light? May be possible to do something similar in *.js? "Now I guess I'll sit back and watch people misinterpret what I just said......" Christian Graus At The Soapbox

open a port and send it through. I dont do things like that in javascript, since it doesn't make sense to. But just open the port. Send your commands to logon and send the file. Its pretty simple. 1 line of code equals many bugs. So don't write any!!

The server-side public methods are not directly accessible from the client-side javascript. However, Atlas (http://www.asp.net/default.aspx?tabindex=9&tabid=47[^]) or Ajax.NET (http://ajax.schwarz-interactive.de/csharpsample/default.aspx[^]) might be a possible solution.

For the first time you have to register the class by command: 'regsvr32 '. or inside your programm you have to examine the 'DllRegisterServer' function and call it.

its not registers on your system. Or IE wont let you create it. Its prolly the latter. just use the HtmlInputFile control. It provides the dialog box. Nick 1 line of code equals many bugs. So don't write any!!

Thx for the reply. I don't think they would go for SMS and most of the clients have outlook express, not ms office outlook. I guess I have to use the quick and dirty option of having the client logged in to the website at all times and a simple javascript alert will remind them of upcoming appointments. thx for the advice and help fluxtah and ista.

Pinging is no longer much help. Unless you turn on the File Sharing exception for Windows Firewall in XP SP2, or otherwise open port 445, Windows Firewall will reject ICMP Echo Request packets sent by ping, by default. You can enable them if required. You'll find that most other software firewalls will do the same. If you need to determine whether you can connect to a network service, just try to connect to it. If you're trying to do a site survey you're probably out of luck. Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder