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Ofori Boadu wrote: I am reading a pdf file in my application using pdfbox Well, cant't really help you as it totally depends on the implemtation of PDFBox. try to look at it documentation :rose:

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Hi, there are a couple of solutions: - use Directory.GetFiles() to get all the file names, then find the "highest" file name in those. - use Directory.GetFiles() to get all the file names, then find the latest file by comparing creation times using File.GetCreationTime() - do a binary search for filenames that match your syntax, checking existence with File.Exists() - teach your app to save the latest file name (a single string) in a fixed location, probably a file in the same folder ("latestFile.txt"). - teach your app to save the latest file name (a single string) in the registry somewhere. Probably not good: - do a linear search for filenames that match your syntax, checking existence with File.Exists(); is slow and might return a hole in the sequence if you somehow deleted an older file. :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] This month's tips: - before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google; - the quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get; - use PRE tags to preserve formatting when showing multi-line code snippets.

Ofori Boadu wrote: Any ideas? Maybe google... "I guess it's what separates the professionals from the drag and drop, girly wirly, namby pamby, wishy washy, can't code for crap types." - Pete O'Hanlon

Hi, there may be two issues: 1. Most ways to load an image keep the image file open as long as the Image object is not Disposed() off. The only exception I am aware of is when reading an image through Image.FromStream() Remedy: use FromStream() or make sure you call Dispose(). remark: I don't think it is sufficient to Dispose() of a PictureBox if it is the only thing refering to the Image that got loaded from your file. 2. When a file, any file, is freshly written chances are some other utility is investigating it, prohibiting you from immediately renaming, deleting or overwriting it; candidate utilities are abything that works in the background on new files, such as file system indexers, and ativirus tools. Remedy: retry a couple of times, 1 second apart. :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] This month's tips: - before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google; - the quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get; - use PRE tags to preserve formatting when showing multi-line code snippets.

Oftentimes when applications are allowed into a suite they trash the place and you're left with a rather large repair/cleanup bill.

Ofori Boadu wrote: I have three different C# applications that I have to put together as one. Any ideas? Well if that' all the requirements you have, you're screwed. That indicates you will be using the Software Rocks Process. Someone gave you a project by telling you they want you to get them a rock. You run off and find one and bring it back and they look at it and say "Oh no I wanted a larger rock". So you run off again and find a larger rock and bring it to them and they say "Oh no I wanted a flatter rock". So you run off again and find a flatter rock and bring it to them and they say "Oh no I wanted a smoother rock". So you run off again and.... well you get the point.... I hope, good luck.

I am trying to pull a text from a database and display it in the picture box under the images. I am getting errors though. Any idea how I can do that? a novice