D G wrote: Using two activex controls seems rather complex and most excel files will not have the activex control embedded anyway. Why not just call an external program that talks directly to any excel file? See http://www.d-w-systems.com/products.html for an example.

Dev G wrote: Using two activex controls etc seems rather complicated. Also, you can not access excel files whihc do not have this control embedded. It maybe simpler to just call an external process (using an http or webservice call) that can read/write to any excel file. See http://www.d-w-systems.com/products.h...

NN wrote: No it is not a concern. If they are thinking people are not waiting for site to load and run away. It is myth because HTML page also takes time to load apart from home page loads little faster compare to web 2.0 home page. HTML base site won't make your site popular overnight or get 1 million order...

NN wrote: DRH: you are jumping up and down on silverlight without any light. let see Microsoft work so hard to kill Java and all know the story. Today we have so many apps running on Java (backend more and front ends sucks where flex shines). Now we have great tools for complete RIA (almost free) Flex + Java...

Daniel Szmulewicz wrote: Shalom, OK, so this post is two years old, but I just found it today and appreciated it a lot. Very instructive, indeed. Since you asked for more versions to achieve the desired resizeable canvas, may I offer mine. It is in the line of the Flex version offered at the end, only simplified. Here...

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