dsoframer

I'm using Microsoft's DSOFramer control to allow me to embed an Excel file in my dialog so the user can choose his sheet, then select his range of cells; it's used with an import button on my dialog. The problem is that when I call the DSOFramer's OPEN function, if I have Excel open in another window, it closes the Excel document (but leaves Excel running). If the document it tries to close has unsaved data, I get a dialog boxclosing Excel doc in another window. If unsaved data in file, dsoframer fails to open with a messagebox: Attempt to access invalid address . I built the source, and

I tried to get DsoFramer and found that its download page and KB article are missing. I've downloaded DsoFramer from cnet.com but I am still curious: why it is removed and if it is deliberate, what should we use instead of it? It is normally because Microsoft called back the KB article. Either the product that it applies to is out of support, or the code in it encourages using of undocumented behavior, or the code does not follow new security guidelines. My guess is that it relies on too many undocumented internal behavior of Office thus programs using it may break when Microsoft release a new