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You can't get around the fact that you are going to have to create your web service first. After the web service has been created, you can build your web page to interact with the web service. If your web service is public on your server, someone else can use it within their aspx page the same way your aspx page uses the service.

LOL Yes, a compliment. I am expressing jealousy over your cool projects compared to my boring ones.

Jeez, EFileTahi-A. You make my database projects sound extremely boring.

This forum used to be much busier. I don't know what happened to it, though. StackOverflow, perhaps?

That was what I did - perhaps a couple of years ago. Basically, I created a separate project with its own namespace that I could serialize/deserialize from either application. Thanks for the note!

JumpyNET, Looks like you did a great job. Thanks for sharing your findings.

Wow! Finally a thread that isn't SPAM. ...and helpful, too! :) Thanks.

Hey Jib, I did an encryption job about 2 years ago. (see attached) I opened the project, had to update it to VS 2008, and verified it still worked. I don't remember why I did all that I did, but I did not need the DESCryptoServiceProvider class. Feel free to poke around my code. It should still work as is. The security key will be missing when you first run it, but the code will prompt you to create a new one and go from there. Hope it helps. jp2crypt.zip

I can write this quicker using C# (what I'm accustomed to): DataTable GetTable(string sqlSelectStatement, string connectionString) { DataTable table = new DataTable(); SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(connectionString); SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(con, sqlSelectStatement); cmd.Connection.Open(); SqlDataReader r = cmd.ExecuteReader(); table.Load(r); cmd.Connection.Close(); return table; } The code above has bad form and does zero error checking, though. Once you have the DataTable, you can get the info you want out of it.

Hi Nate, I completely agree! Some companies are very protective of their data, though. Wow. That post was almost 2 years ago! :) I doubt they still need help, though.

There are many examples on Microsoft that show how to do this. Here are two (2): http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186197(VS.80).aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa288436(VS.71).aspx If you have more specific questions, feel free to respond.

I don't think anyone is interested in downloading your code. Perhaps you could post a simple example of what you want to accomplish. Are you able to connect to your Access database with your OleDbDataConnection settings?

Alternately, you could use something from Adobe that you'd likely need to pay for. Microsoft details what to do about that: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823241 Sorry for the round-about answer, but I did not understand what you wanted. It sounded like you wanted a way to view PDFs from within the VS IDE.

Here's a nice, free one: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfsharp/

That's where it should be. You could be looking at a "Trial Version" limitation. Does anything state what the limitations of the Trial software are?