I'm trying to show a PDF using BinaryWrite (like the tutorial here http://psacake.com/web/gj.asp ) but I don't have access to the server to make the DLL file to have this run right. Is there another way? Thanks.

Do you have ASP.NET available? You could do the same sort of thing in ASP.NET and not have to muck around with a component.

hahahaha funny

Yeah, it's a .NET server, how would I go about doing it with that? I'm only really familiar with standard ASP.

Funny? I don't get it...

No, neither do I. If you're gonna post something, make it relevant.

Try this. Put it in a file with a .aspx extention:

<% Page Language="VB" %>
 
<script runat="server">
	Sub Page_Load
		Dim MyFileStream As FileStream
		Dim FileSize As Long
 
		MyFileStream = New FileStream("myfile.pdf", FileMode.Open)
		FileSize = MyFileStream.Length
 
		Dim Buffer(CInt(FileSize)) As Byte
		MyFileStream.Read(Buffer, 0, CInt(FileSize))
		MyFileStream.Close()
 
		Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream"
		Response.BinaryWrite(Buffer)
	End Sub
</script>

I havn't tested it myself so it might need some tweaking. Post back here if you have any trouble.

If you want some really good documentation on what each of the functions/classes do, download the .NET SDK

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

There's also a load of great .NET tutorials, samples and resources at http://www.asp.net

OK, I got ASP.NET installed (it wasn't) and now I'm getting this error:

Compiler Error Message: BC30002: Type 'FileStream' is not defined.

Source Error:


Line 3: <script runat="server">
Line 4: Sub Page_Load
Line 5: Dim MyFileStream As FileStream
Line 6: Dim FileSize As Long

I also had to put @ in front of the Page Language="VB" to get it to work. Thanks.

Oh yeah. You need to import the namespace. Under the <@ Page directive, put an import directive:

<%@ Import Namespace="System.IO" %>

You could also simply change Line 5:

Dim MyFileStream As System.IO.FileStream

but it's usually better to import cos you usually use things from that namespace more than once.

If you need to find out what namespace a class belongs to, download the .NET SDK, open the documentation and search for the class name (in this case, FileStream). The namespace will be shown at the bottom of the page.

OK, this works, but according to the error I get, it needs write permission to do it. Is there a way to do it as read only? Or is that really against the nature of how BinaryWrite works? Thanks for the help on this, I appreciate it. For anyone else, this is the code I have so far... I takes the location and file name and passes it through the scrip to hide the location of the original file:

<%@ Page Language="VB" debug="true"%>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.IO" %>

<script runat="server">
        Sub Page_Load
                Dim MyFileStream As FileStream
                Dim FileSize As Long
				Dim getFile, section, mFile
				
				getFile = Request.QueryString("f")
				section = Request.QueryString("s")
				
				mFile = Server.MapPath("dlfolder/" & section & "/" & getFile)

                MyFileStream = New FileStream(mFile, FileMode.Open)
                FileSize = MyFileStream.Length
 
                Dim Buffer(CInt(FileSize)) As Byte
                MyFileStream.Read(Buffer, 0, CInt(FileSize))
                MyFileStream.Close()
 
				Response.Addheader("Content-Disposition", "inline; filename=" & getFile)
				Response.CacheControl = "public"
                Response.ContentType = "application/pdf"
                Response.BinaryWrite(Buffer)
        End Sub
</script>

Ahh I think I have it... Adding ", FileAccess.Read" to the FileStream Command set s the write permission before accessing the file. Thanks for the help.