Books OnLine (chm files) Problem

Hi All,

I searched this news group but couldn't find that problem which
is suprising... maybe I'm doing something stupid.

I start one of the chm files (books on line help files).
I read about a topic. There are links.
I click on them. It tells me "Selection is not associated with any
topic. Please try again.". Its ahref link to jscript function:
javascript:hhobj_1.Click() but I do not have it and cannot find it.
So I have to go between all those chm files hoping to find the topic
of my choice.
Plus I want to search them all at once.
There must be a (smart) and easy way to do this.
Please, do you have any suggestions.

Thankfully

Jimmy Ol' BoyJimmy,

> I start one of the chm files (books on line help files). I read about a
> topic. There are links. I click on them. It tells me "Selection is not
> associated with any topic. Please try again.".

A number of the security patches for Internet Explorer that Microsoft
has released this year are known to break the HTML Help ActiveX
control, which is the component that provides the navigation
facilities in help files.

The problem is described in Knowledge Base article 822989 and, in most
cases, installing Critical Update 811630 should sort it out.

822989: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=822989
811630: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=811630

The exception to this is Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4 installed.
In this case, you must unregister the ActiveX control and then
re-register it, by running the following two commands from a command
prompt:

regsvr32 /u <drive>:\winnt\system32\hhctrl.ocx
regsvr32 <drive>:\winnt\system32\hhctrl.ocx

--
Pete (Microsoft Help MVP)

blobs?

I have searched high and low for this answer, but still to no avail...

Does anyone have a reliable way of storing serialized data into a table which does not use direct SQL on the client side? I am using Stored Procedures and simply need to be able to read out of the table the object written in.

Inserting appears fine, but reading only seems to come back with 16 bytes of data and I just can't figure out why. Whats the recommended way of doing this?

Matt.You're not reading the byte array properly. See if this article helps:

http://www.dotnetbips.com/displayarticle.aspx?id=60|||just thought I would let everyone know that I solved my serialization problem...

...I was creating a SqlParameter object with a SqlDbType.Image and giving it a size of 16, which meant every time I performed a DB op with that entry I got no more than 16 bytes of data back. very annoying.

anyway, Iv'e removed that from the new SqlParameter() and it works.

I had even read in various places that it's not possible to do serialization to the db using things like SQL, but I may have been just very paranoid by then...

cheers folks,
m.