hi, => To get the orientation u can do: void GetInitOrientation() { PRINTDLG pd; pd.lStructSize = (DWORD) sizeof(PRINTDLG); if( GetPrinterDeviceDefaults(&pd)) { DEVMODE FAR* pDevMode = (DEVMODE FAR*)::GlobalLock(m_hDevMode); if(pDevMode) { nStartupOrientation = pDevMode->dmOrientation; ::GlobalUnlock(m_hDevMode); } } } => To set the orientation: This does not actually invoke the print dialog void SetOrientation(int mode) { PRINTDLG pd; pd.lStructSize = (DWORD) sizeof(PRINTDLG); if( GetPrinterDeviceDefaults(&pd)) { DEVMODE FAR* pDevMode = (DEVMODE FAR*)::GlobalLock(m_hDevMode); if(pDevMode) { switch (mode) { case 1: pDevMode->dmOrientation = DMORIENT_LANDSCAPE; break; case 0: default: pDevMode->dmOrientation = DMORIENT_PORTRAIT; break; }; ::GlobalUnlock(m_hDevMode); } } } hope this helps, Sharad Ganesh

hi, U can use the MFC - CFileDialog to do the same. Rgds, Sharad Ganesh

hi, Use Dependency Walker which comes with MS Visual Studio Tools! Rgds, Sharad Ganesh

hi, What exactly do u mean by render XML ? Do u want to parse the XML and display the contents onto the browser ? If so, u can use the xerces parser which is an open-source from IBM-Apache. You can get it at http://xml.apache.org. Get the JAR - xerces.jar. Rgds, Sharad Ganesh

hi, Did u check up on the corrected code i posted ? There was a corection "new char". Rgds, Sharad

hi, Basically, this error means that something looking for of MSVCRTD.DLL (the MicroSoft Visual C RunTime Dynamic Link Library) is finding a different (probably older) version/ or it is absent. The version it is finding does not have the all the exports (places that things calling the DLL can enter by) that the version it wants has. Regards, Sharad Ganesh

hi, To start with u can create a simple Dialog based application. You'll have to read MSDN for more information, for how to:Create a dialog based app". Then u can use Windows SDK funtions and MFC to do the rest. Like use CreateProcess / WinExec to open the .xls file. MFC provies a Find dialog class which is easy to use. Its very difficult to explain a step-by-step process. It would be better if u read MSDN on the said lines. hope this helps, Sharad Ganesh

hi, Assigning a pointer to NULL does not actually free the allocated memory. Your memory should have been allocated by using "new char". ch is not any type here. I presume it should have been "char". One very nice thing about delete is that even if the pointer = NULL, ur app _won't_ crash. I just replace that new ch with "new char". and then delete ptrChar; Regards, Sharad Ganesh

hi, If you're keen on using the C++ library, u could do this with fstream's ::seekg to seek to the end(ios::end) minus the offset which is calculated. The offset would be calculated using sizeof(string). Specify the offset in (-)ve. Now you can write the present contents from this location. P.S. Open the file in binary mode. hope this helps, Sharad In C you write your own bugs, in C++ you inherit them ! - Anonymous