Recently I've been testing my new out of the box Cisco E1200 router and its a story in itself.
Saturday, January 11, 2014
Thursday, January 9, 2014
Using .NET for your project without MS Office...
And "suddenly" you can't print or especially print preview a document without a new version of Office, Because your target hardware is outdated, has Office 2000 and everyone else is okay with that.
Your options are:
1. To rollback to a Very, Very old version of .NET, hoping that you haven't implemented any features from the newer ones.
2. Suck it up and try to force your client to upgrade all their workstations to Office 2010. When they see the price tag of that upgrade they will laugh at you and your relationship with them will end shortly.
3. You could buy some expensive third-party libraries that implement needed features.
But what if you're out of budget and can't rollback?
One easy solution that I found was good old HTML. One can hide an IE browser windows in the application page and then use it to load and print preview a static HTML page, which can be easily created from the required Word document.
Problem solved!
Your options are:
1. To rollback to a Very, Very old version of .NET, hoping that you haven't implemented any features from the newer ones.
2. Suck it up and try to force your client to upgrade all their workstations to Office 2010. When they see the price tag of that upgrade they will laugh at you and your relationship with them will end shortly.
3. You could buy some expensive third-party libraries that implement needed features.
But what if you're out of budget and can't rollback?
One easy solution that I found was good old HTML. One can hide an IE browser windows in the application page and then use it to load and print preview a static HTML page, which can be easily created from the required Word document.
Problem solved!
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