Saving Non-VSTO copy of VSTO Workbook

Question

I am trying to save a ListObject from a .NET 3.5 Excel 2007 VSTO Workbook to a new sheet (done) and save that new sheet to a new workbook (done) without that workbook requiring the VSTO customization file (!!!!!).

Has anyone had any luck with this? The only way I've had any success is just saving as a CSV file but that's not exactly acceptable in this case. I'd rather not save to a CSV just to copy back to a XLS file.

worksheet.SaveAs(saveDialog.FileName, Excel.XlFileFormat.xlOpenXMLWorkbook)

Answer 1

If I understand correctly, you do not want the new workbook file to depend or load any VSTO customization?

Try this MSDN link to remove VSTO customization assemblies from workbooks.

Answer 2

Ok this didn't end up working for me and here's why. The answer is still correct but I want to clarify for future users.

I have a ListObject I wanted to save in an external workbook using VSTO. Creating a new Worksheet and using SaveAs would rename the current Workbook to that and therefore I would have to close the entire workbook to remove the Customization.

What I should have done from the beginning is this:

Create the Worksheet and populate the ListObject on said Worksheet. Then use .Copy() with no parameters to create a new workbook. How do i find the workbook then though? I simply named the Worksheet Now.Ticks.ToString() and looked for any open workbook with the ActiveSheet.Name as Now.Ticks.ToString(). For this application, it doesn't need to be more in depth then that. I the saved THAT workbook and then closed it. Since the workbook was created with Copy it had no customizations on it and problem solved.