yeah... I know it's hard and frustrating! :sigh: but I bet every girlfriend would love to get a pair of those earrings: Perfect Pi Day Present[^] cheers, mykel OMM: "Let us be thankful we have commerce. Buy more. Buy more now. Buy. And be happy."

C'mon... doesn't anybody have experience with hosting WinForms controls inside MFC ActiveX controls? There must be lots of large "legacy" applications out there which implement an ActiveX container for (GUI) extensions. Any help is appreciated, even comments like "Careful, you'll likely get burned using this approach, because ..." ;) cheers, mykel If they give you lined paper, write the other way!

C'mon... doesn't anybody have experience with hosting WinForms controls inside MFC ActiveX controls? There must be lots of large "legacy" applications out there which implement an ActiveX container for (GUI) extensions. Any help is appreciated, even comments like "Careful, you'll likely get burned using this approach, because ..." ;) cheers, mykel If they give you lined paper, write the other way!

alright, found a solution: problem was that MSDN Q187988[^] was applied sometime before which swallowed all my precious messages using a Windows WH_GETMESSAGE hook. my quick and dirty solution is to disable the windows hook directly before opening the popup dialog and enable the hook again directly after the popup dialog is closed. everything works fine then and I can finally drag the dialog around... yipeeh! what a pain in the ...! :wtf: perhaps there is a smarter solution. if you know one I would be glad for a short post. regards, mykel If they give you lined paper, write the other way!

Hi Michael, thanks for your reply! With the following links I figured out how to get and set the properties of office documents like author, title, comment or company: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/186898/en-us[^] http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/stg/stg/the_documentsummaryinformation_and_userdefined_property_sets.asp[^] So the first (and minor point) on my list of wishes is done. But as far as I can see I cannot edit the major metadata of office document's like track changes, hidden text, deleted text or previous versions with the IPropertyStorage interface. Check out for example the ezClean[^] tool that does all this pretty stuff. Does anybody have a clue how to do this? Regards, mYkel

Ahhh yes... the good old z-Order. I'm so tired!!! :wtf: PJ you're still rocking! :cool: Regards, mYkel

I got it working with a typed DataSet... thanks very much for your help Heath!!! You're the best! :rose: Regards, mYkel

It's really pleasure that it made sense!;) BTW, thanks for notification about signature Don't forget, that's Persian Gulf not Arabian gulf! Murphy: Click Here![^] I'm thirsty like sun, more landless than wind...

This Codeproject article, http://www.codeproject.com/listctrl/selectentirerow.asp?target=LVS%5FOWNERDRAWFIXED[^], shows some of what you need, but it's in C++/MFC, not C#! Basically you need to add the LVS_OWNERDRAWFIXED style to your derived ListView, and handle the [WM_DRAWITEM](http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/commctls/comboboxes/comboboxreference/comboboxmessages/wm_drawitem.asp) windows message and the corresponding DRAWITEMSTRUCT, which contains the iItemID of the item to draw. You can add the style to by overriding the ListView's CreateParams property and intercept the WM_DRAWITEM in your overriden DefWndProc. The MSDN says this about LVS_OWNERDRAWFIXED: "The owner window can paint items in report view. The list-view control sends a WM_DRAWITEM message to paint each item; it does not send separate messages for each subitem. The iItemData member of the DRAWITEMSTRUCT structure contains the item data for the specified list-view item. " Ian Mariano - http://www.ian-space.com/ "We are all wave equations in the information matrix of the universe" - me

Which serialization are you using? The System.Runtime.Serialization namespace elements or the System.Xml.Serialization namespace elements? The former does serialize references (as I mentioned before) but requires something to associate them with the original object. Since you don't have such a serialization manager, a copy of the class is deserialized, yes. There is not way to get an existing reference back since memory address shouldn't be stored (isn't durable), only to associate the data with existing objects. If you don't have something that will do that, all that can be returned is a copy of the class. Again, read the link I sent you for more information. Microsoft MVP, Visual C# My Articles

Mykel wrote: There's no difference between "f" and "F", right? Nope. See the documentation for NumberFormatInfo in the .NET Framework SDK for more information. Microsoft MVP, Visual C# My Articles