By what you described, it does sound like the problem is on the client end of things. It may be that the compatibility pack doesn't set up the MIME types in the client registry, not sure (HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MIME\Database\Content Type). Are we talking IE on the client end here? Do you get the same behavior in other browsers? Check out the [Handling MIME Types in Internet Explorer](<a href=)[^]"> MSDN article for more info on that. There may be some things you can investigate here. Unfortunately, any solution is likely to require extra work by your clients, which is often something that you can't make a requirement. Blog: http://windowsclientdevelopment.spaces.live.com FAQs: http://windowspresentationfoundation.wikispaces.com http://windowsmobile.wikispaces.com http://vsto.wikispaces.com

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I wasn't completely sure at first, glad you cleared that up :) . And you're right, it is an important question to be asked. Sometimes I tend to propose a solution to answer a question w/o questioning wither the asker is even heading down the right path in the first place. It probably stems from a desire to be helpful (which it isn't always). Also from frustration when I have posted questions (never on CP) which the only answer I get is "are you sure?", followed by a defining silence when I explain that yes I am sure and I need help. Mark's blog: developMENTALmadness.blogspot.com

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gauthee wrote: Please note that our application has needed excel objects clean up code. What does this mean? You need clean up code and you're getting out of memory exceptions? Seems an obvious problem. only two letters away from being an asset

gauthee wrote: "THERE IS NOT ENOUGH MEMORY TO RUN MICROSOFT EXCEL. PLEASE CLOSE OTHER APPLICATION AND TRY AGAIN" Sohail

mav, Thanks for the reply! Sorry, if the info provided was unclear, what else you would require to analyze further? The other details are as follows: 1.When the error occurs we no longer can open an excel file. 2.After the system restart the excel application work. 3.Strangely the error(not enough memory) willnot occur when the number of processes running in my machine are minimal, when i run more applications/processes in my system this exce memory error occurs. 4.all COM objects related to excel are being released(not 100% sure though). we are searching for any excel processes running and then doing the kill process too! Thanks! gauthee

gauthee wrote: Is it possible to use distinct keyword for one or two coulmns instead for the entire row i.e. all columns No. Adding the DISTINCT keyword specifies that only unique rows can appear in the resultset. You should add a GROUP BY clause to your query and group on the fields where you do not want duplicate values in the resultset. Paul Marfleet "No, his mind is not for rent To any God or government" Tom Sawyer - Rush

Thanks Balaji! the article was helpul however it was just an abstract! Is there some sort of practical example so that it would be easy for us to relate! gauthee

gauthee wrote: i have used the process and process start info objects and could complete the task bu the constraint is while printing the original file is being opened! You mean is opened in Word of Excel, etc? If so, one solution would be to wait until the file has been sent to the printer(by periodically checking the number of print jobs) and after that close the main application. The first part can be achieved with this(code suggested by Martin#): ObjectQuery qry = new ObjectQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_PrintJob"); ManagementObjectSearcher srchr = new ManagementObjectSearcher(qry); ManagementObjectCollection coll = srchr.Get(); int initialJobs = coll.Count; while (coll.Count == initialJobs) { System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(10); coll = srchr.Get(); } Good luck!

gauthee wrote: i thought i would open the file through binary reader and then send the bytes to the printer thereby printing the required file! And in each and every case, you'll be printing pages and pages of complete garbage. You can NOT just send what the application saved to disk to the printer and expect a nice image to appear on the paper. The printer doesn't know anything about any applications file format and applications don't save their files as a nice printed image on disk. A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007

If your XSL file is for example 400 bytes long, your read operation will read somewhere between 1 and 399 bytes (both extremes included). It can never 400 as you tell it to read fs.Length - 1 It is not even certain it will read 399 bytes, as any stream can choose to chunk any way it likes. The only thing you know for sure is that it will return minimum 1 byte (as long end of file has not been reached) and maximum the number you specify. Either loop the read (you get the number of bytes read in the return value), or use a BinaryReader which offer the possibility to read a fixed number of bytes without any chunking (it will simply do the looping for you).

Paddy, I have not done any changes to WSDL! gauthee

I took a quick look at the documentation of Nova PDF and found that you can catch events from the printer driver self. There is an event NOVAPDF2_ENDDOC which fires when the job is done. Maybe this could be of use for you? I've used the PDF document found on http://www.novapdf.com/download/pdf/novasdk.pdf[^] See on page 28 of this document for the events. See heading 4.5 on page 20 to see how to register to the events. There's even something about e-mailing the converted documents in this guide. Hope this helps as well! Tim Wuytens

Hi, you can read all bytes of all files you can access. and you can write these bytes again to any location you can access. Since .NET 2.0 you can do it with File.ReadAllBytes and File.WriteAllBytes, you don't need streams for that. Don't really know what good it all will do for you tho. You probably will not be able to understand the bytes, nor change them in any way that results in a valid new document. And you can't just convert a document by changing its file extension, if that were what you hope for. :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] this weeks tips: - make Visual display line numbers: Tools/Options/TextEditor/... - show exceptions with ToString() to see all information - before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google

Printing - there is a printer driver installed in the machine i.e. novapdf printer all i do is create a word object and use the print method to print the doc, prior to this i would set the printer as novapdf printer thats it! gauthee