RE: OCX's that support Unicode

From: Chris Pratley (chrispr@microsoft.com)
Date: Fri Oct 19 2001 - 14:02:08 EDT


Um, best to check the license agreement in Project. Sorry, I have little
to do with them.

Sent with OfficeXP final release

-----Original Message-----
From: Tex Texin [mailto:texin@progress.com]
Sent: October 18, 2001 11:23 PM
To: Chris Pratley
Cc: Michael (michka) Kaplan; Unicoders; NE Localization SIG
Subject: Re: OCX's that support Unicode

thanks Chris. I'll give them a look. Can they be redistributed by
applications that use them, or do the users have to buy MS Project? Or
is their an MS Project sdk?

tex

Chris Pratley wrote:
>
> I believe MS Project ships with several webparts for use in IE. These
> are probably Unicode enabled.
>
> Sent with OfficeXP final release
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael (michka) Kaplan [mailto:michka@trigeminal.com]
> Sent: October 18, 2001 6:00 PM
> To: Tex Texin
> Cc: Unicoders; NE Localization SIG
> Subject: Re: OCX's that support Unicode
>
> Tex,
>
> > Michael, thanks.
>
> Any time. :-)
>
> > Are there any Microsoft controls that do scheduling (for displaying
> > project timelines or something similar, even if crude...)?
>
> I do not know of any.... but of course there may well be several
> available.
> Way too much stuff comes out of MS for anyone to keep track of it
(heck,
> didn't Gates move out of the CEO spot to have more time to review
> products
> again? He wasn't seeing it enough, either! <g>).
>
> > More generally, I was mucking around with some of the Microsoft
OCXs,
> > but it got too confusing. They had many that seem to do similar
> things,
> > some were probably just later versions, of an original and were
> renamed.
> > But it was hard to figure out which were the latest, and which will
be
> > supported going forward, and also had reasonable licensing, so I
> > couldn't properly recommend them.
> > (I can't tell people to build applications and require their
customers
> > to buy or download some unrelated software.)
>
> Well, if you have an OCX in mind, I might either know what the deal is
> for
> redist, or else I might know who to ask.... we can continue that
> conversation offline if we have moved off of Unicode for that?
>
> > If you or anyone else could suggest guidelines, then I might
> reconsider
> > recommending these controls.
>
> Most controls and components that ship with dev. products (and which a
> dev
> would need to deploy solutions) are on a redist list that is included
> with
> the product. This includes SQL Server, VS, VC, VB, Office Developer,
> etc.
> There are exceptions (which is why checking that redist list can be so
> important) but by and large its true.
>
> MichKa
>
> Michael Kaplan
> Trigeminal Software, Inc.
> http://www.trigeminal.com/

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