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  • E Eric Gunnerson msft

    Can you explain what you're trying to do? If you're trying to drive excel, you'd do that through COM interop, not through P/Invoke. You do that by adding the excel com component to your project (or through tlbimp if you don't have vs).

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    Jorgen Sigvardsson
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    How would such an interop assembly behave on a system where excel is not installed? Would it crap out on me while loading the application or would it throw a bunch of exceptions at me when I try to instantiate the COM-objects? -- Please state the nature of your medical emergency.

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    • E Eric Gunnerson msft

      Can you explain what you're trying to do? If you're trying to drive excel, you'd do that through COM interop, not through P/Invoke. You do that by adding the excel com component to your project (or through tlbimp if you don't have vs).

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      David Stone
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      Ummm, Eric your company is giving us this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?url=/downloads/sample.asp?url=/msdn-files/027/001/999/msdncompositedoc.xml[^] and they say to use that instead of doing any type of COM stuff. Just thought I'd let you know. :) Norm Almond: I seen some GUI's in my life but WTF is this mess ;-) Leppie: I made an app for my sister and she wouldnt use it till it was colorful enough:) Norm:good point leppie, from that statement I can only deduce that this GUI must be aimed at children:laugh: Leppie:My sister is 25:eek: -Norm on the MailMagic GUI

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      • E Eric Gunnerson msft

        Can you explain what you're trying to do? If you're trying to drive excel, you'd do that through COM interop, not through P/Invoke. You do that by adding the excel com component to your project (or through tlbimp if you don't have vs).

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        Vu Truong
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        Thanks for your reply. I use Microsoft Excel Object Library to create and edit on Excel files. So I have to make sure that Microsoft Excel is already installed. I also want to check I can use ADOX on the user's computer or not. I think if getting CLSID of these components successfully, I can use them. Is it right?

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          Ummm, Eric your company is giving us this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?url=/downloads/sample.asp?url=/msdn-files/027/001/999/msdncompositedoc.xml[^] and they say to use that instead of doing any type of COM stuff. Just thought I'd let you know. :) Norm Almond: I seen some GUI's in my life but WTF is this mess ;-) Leppie: I made an app for my sister and she wouldnt use it till it was colorful enough:) Norm:good point leppie, from that statement I can only deduce that this GUI must be aimed at children:laugh: Leppie:My sister is 25:eek: -Norm on the MailMagic GUI

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          Eric Gunnerson msft
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          I didn't know we'd made those available. The page you link is correct, you should use the primary interop assemblies rather than rolling your own.

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          • J Jorgen Sigvardsson

            How would such an interop assembly behave on a system where excel is not installed? Would it crap out on me while loading the application or would it throw a bunch of exceptions at me when I try to instantiate the COM-objects? -- Please state the nature of your medical emergency.

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            Eric Gunnerson msft
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            Hmm. I don't know the answer to that.

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            • E Eric Gunnerson msft

              I didn't know we'd made those available. The page you link is correct, you should use the primary interop assemblies rather than rolling your own.

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              Jorgen Sigvardsson
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              Eric Gunnerson (msft) wrote: you should use the primary interop assemblies rather than rolling your own Any special reason for this? -- Please state the nature of your medical emergency.

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                Eric Gunnerson (msft) wrote: you should use the primary interop assemblies rather than rolling your own Any special reason for this? -- Please state the nature of your medical emergency.

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                Eric Gunnerson msft
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                The big reason is that they're signed.

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                • E Eric Gunnerson msft

                  The big reason is that they're signed.

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                  Eric Gunnerson (msft) wrote: The big reason is that they're signed. Sounds like political red tape typical from any company, am I right?... ;) Nick Parker
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                    Eric Gunnerson (msft) wrote: The big reason is that they're signed. Sounds like political red tape typical from any company, am I right?... ;) Nick Parker
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                    Nick Parker wrote: Sounds like political red tape typical from any company, am I right?... I don't understand your point.

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                    • E Eric Gunnerson msft

                      Nick Parker wrote: Sounds like political red tape typical from any company, am I right?... I don't understand your point.

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                      Nick Parker
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                      Eric Gunnerson (msft) wrote: I don't understand your point. I was only being facetious. Just trying to lighten things up in the C# forum. No bad feelings? ;) Nick Parker
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                      • E Eric Gunnerson msft

                        I didn't know we'd made those available. The page you link is correct, you should use the primary interop assemblies rather than rolling your own.

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                        How much stuff do you not make available to us??? :suss: Norm Almond: I seen some GUI's in my life but WTF is this mess ;-) Leppie: I made an app for my sister and she wouldnt use it till it was colorful enough:) Norm:good point leppie, from that statement I can only deduce that this GUI must be aimed at children:laugh: Leppie:My sister is 25:eek: -Norm on the MailMagic GUI

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                          How much stuff do you not make available to us??? :suss: Norm Almond: I seen some GUI's in my life but WTF is this mess ;-) Leppie: I made an app for my sister and she wouldnt use it till it was colorful enough:) Norm:good point leppie, from that statement I can only deduce that this GUI must be aimed at children:laugh: Leppie:My sister is 25:eek: -Norm on the MailMagic GUI

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                          Eric Gunnerson msft
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                          This much (holding hands about 3 feet apart)... Perhaps "released" would have been a better term.

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                          • E Eric Gunnerson msft

                            This much (holding hands about 3 feet apart)... Perhaps "released" would have been a better term.

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                            Okay. Just wanted one more reason to work at Microsoft...:-D Norm Almond: I seen some GUI's in my life but WTF is this mess ;-) Leppie: I made an app for my sister and she wouldnt use it till it was colorful enough:) Norm:good point leppie, from that statement I can only deduce that this GUI must be aimed at children:laugh: Leppie:My sister is 25:eek: -Norm on the MailMagic GUI

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