csv, chm, and htm file reader/viewer for Win7?
Hello, i am looking for native MS APIs to read those extensions. The ability to read .chm has been lost after the XP, the same goes for htm. I could read csv in Vista and don't recall now what API I used. csv file reader I can code myself but there are complicated case, as you know, so I would prefer MS official viewer for that. Regretfully Bing brings very little relevant information. Thanks for any help. AlexB - Win_7 Pro64, SqlSer64 WinSer64
July 18th, 2010 8:09pm

I'm wondering what you mean by "read those extensions" with regard to these files... CSV - Comma Separated Values. I'm guessing you don't have Office installed, or you would find that Excel seems to be the "MS official viewer". CHM - Compiled HTML help format. What is it you can't do with these files? I find they open just fine with Windows 7, via C:\Windows\hh.exe. HTM - HTML format. Of course this is Internet Explorer's territory, and every Windows system can display an HTM file in Internet Explorer. Clearly I don't understand your question, as the way I'm interpreting it you can't read the above file types in Windows 7. You mention "native MS APIs"... Are you looking to interpret these files during a read into your own program then? -Noel
Free Windows Admin Tool Kit Click here and download it now
July 19th, 2010 5:24am

Clearly I don't understand your question, as the way I'm interpreting it you can't read the above file types in Windows 7. You mention "native MS APIs"... Are you looking to interpret these files during a read into your own program then? Thanks for the pointers. As far as reading csv's, yest I need to read tham into my program and I have done it many times (it is elementary) but I also need to examine the files visually quite often to determine how to code field reading. I don 't have Office isntalled. I have no need for it in my machiens. I have enough software as it is and adding something I will never or only seldom use is problematic. hh.exe - I do have it in C:\Windows\ and other folders but IT DOES NOT RUN. It simply does not. I don't know what the issue is, it simply does not. I also have this file in my Win Server directory: H:\Windows\winsxs\wow64_microsoft-windows-htmlhelp_31bf3856ad364e35_6.0.6001.18000_none_2ec93c88717aae45 Well, when I tried to open it with a click on the file I got an error message that the file cannot be opened because of improper command line. So, I went to the directory with cmd prompt and ran it. Incredibly a GUI of sorts showed up which was in fact the Windows Explorer. I navigated to the file I needed to open and clicked on it. It "opened" the chm file and I observed what I have seen many times before without your hh.exe. Only headings are seen but no text under the trees. Thus I am back to square one. No progress. Sorry.AlexB - Win_7 Pro64, SqlSer64 WinSer64
July 20th, 2010 2:04am

>Only headings are seen but no text under the trees Right click on the individual .chm files you're trying to open, choose Properties, and see if they report that they're blocked because they were downloaded from the Internet. Unblock them if they were. -Noel
Free Windows Admin Tool Kit Click here and download it now
July 21st, 2010 3:13am

This topic is archived. No further replies will be accepted.

Other recent topics Other recent topics