Dynamic OLE

Post Author: aaron2000
CA Forum: .NET
This should be an easy question to answer. I'm new to cr so if I use bad terminology please correct me.
I have an ole object linked to a word file that shows in my report. I want to change the location of the embedded file ie re-embed the file at runtime.
Basically, I want to choose what word file I show in the ole object at runtime. I can't find any code for this. Thanks.

Post Author: ROk
CA Forum: .NET
Hi i'm searching for the solution of these problem about one week and i'm not found any.I found this two options: 1.In MS access you can do this in insert-> more controls->rtf2 control(rich text format) Add rtf2 control to report design and then in code you can set the source of rtf something like theese rtf2control.object.text=source. But i dont know if is this possible in crystal report because i cannot find how to add rtf2 control to design and use it in .net Code 2.I was hoping that there will be somekind of properties of ole object that you can set path but i found nothinh.I just found out that when you insert ole object(ms word) in visual studio 2005, that it is somehow convert to picture but as set before don't know how to set different location of this.So here i'm little confused I'm searching for solution of this very long time so PLEASE HELP AND ANSWER SOMEHOWE!!!! ANYONETNX

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