Andrea Soto’s Blog

Well, I wasn’t sure if it was possible to create an application using flash as a UI …
Something like this:
http://assets.devx.com/articlefigs/10047.jpg
and even with a flash UI, how do i pass arguments around?

Well this project doesn’t look as good as that picture BUT it will show you the general idea of how to pass arguments between flash <-> application.

I chose CLR/C++.NET because is easier for me. You can do this with any .NET language that you preffer.

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My Fav RoR Links ^.^:

Ruby
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
Try Ruby
http://www.tryruby.hobix.com/

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I found these links once, in some forum, forgot which one to be honest. They are pretty handy imo. Enjoy!

I just double checked the link. Here is the latest update (July 18 2008)

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MS’s ADO module for Excel spreadsheets tries to be smart, by attempting to determine a column’s datatype based on the first (few?) values in a column. If this value appears to be a number, but later has a text value, you might receive null fields when there is indeed a value. Clearly this is bad, and caused me an hour or two of frustration.

The solution is to include “IMEX=1″ in your DSN:

[source:c++]

OleDbConnection conn = new OleDbConnection(”Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;”
+ “Data Source=” + _infile + “;Extended Properties=\”Excel 8.0;HDR=YES;IMEX=1\”");[/source]

See KB194124 for more details.